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BENETTON TAGS
BY MARK ROWE
KNITWEAR giant Benetton is to employ ‘smart tag’ tracking technology with microchip transmitters that allow the company to trace garments at its stores from their point of manufacture to the moment they are sold.
Benetton’s Sisley line of clothing will contain a radio frequency ID tag that enables the retailer to learn the status of its inventory at a glance and make restocking decisions quickly.…
RUSSIA CULL
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has ordered its farmers to destroy almost 90,000 chicks it fears comes from the Netherlands because of the avian-flu outbreak in that country. The virus was founding in imported Dutch hatching eggs in two towns south of Moscow and the Russian agriculture ministry has asked European veterinary services to provide additional safety guarantees about egg and chick exports.…
DUTCH CHICKEN FLU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the movement of live poultry and hatching eggs from the Netherlands to other European Union countries, following an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza amongst chickens in the eastern province of Gelderland.…
ECJ ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STREAMLINING, multi-tasking and flexible posting of employees may be important weapons in the arsenal of a personnel team looking at getting the most efficiency out of their company, but managers had better make sure that their policies are legal, not only under national laws, but European law too.…
DUTCH CHICKEN FLU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the movement of live poultry and hatching eggs from the Netherlands to other European Union countries, following an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza amongst chickens in the eastern province of Gelderland.…
DUTCH CHICKEN FLU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the movement of live poultry and hatching eggs from the Netherlands to other European Union countries, following an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza amongst chickens in the eastern province of Gelderland.…
WATER INSTITUTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW international water college has been founded in the Netherlands, with the particular aim of developing new techniques and technologies to secure future water supplies in arid areas. The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, is a joint venture between the UN scientific body and the Dutch government, which had run a purely national water institute on the college’s site.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s anti-fraud office OLAF has been called in to investigate financial corruption at the EU’s Committee of the Regions, the Brussels body representing local governments across Europe.
Its investigators are checking allegations made by Dutch socialist MEP Michiel van Hulten to the European Parliament that the record of financial probity at the CoR “can only be described as alarming.”…
WATER INSTITUTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW international water college has been founded in the Netherlands, with the particular aim of developing new techniques and technologies to secure future water supplies in arid areas. The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, is a joint venture between the UN scientific body and the Dutch government, which had run a purely national water institute on the college’s site.…
EBRD GRAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$15 million to the Russian and Ukrainian subsidiaries of Dutch grain and oilseed trader Nidera Handelscompagnie, to boost primary production in the ex-USSR.…