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The European Parliament’s environment committee has backed the new law provisionally agreed between European Parliament negotiators and European Union (EU) member states on improving the environmental and working standards for scrapping EU-owned ships. Under a planned EU regulation, such ships would have to be dismantled in ship recycling facilities listed by the EU as meeting specific requirements, and are certified and regularly inspected.…

Making money in the mobile communications sector is always about the art of the possible, but ambitious companies will always seek to tap the most revenue streams. The question, as ever, is how to achieve such goals, without being weighed down with additional layers of management that eat into those vital profit margins.…

ON July 1, Croatia finally became the European Union’s 28th member state – a long-awaited accession following 10 hard years of negotiations. Many of the questions that surrounded Croatia’s eligibility centred on the country’s level of commercial crime and corruption, including money laundering, and concerns about its ability to tackle such problems effectively.…

WHERE European Union (EU) legislation is concerned, it’s been one step forward and one step back for the European oleochemicals sector so far in 2013, though Chantal De Cooman, secretary-general of the European Oleochemicals and Allied Products Group (APAG), was in breezy mood when speaking to Oils & Fats International last month (July).…

AN AGREEMENT was struck last night in Brussels over plans to introduce a 95 grams of CO2 emissions per kilometer target for new automobiles sold in the European Union (EU) by 2020. Representatives from the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers thrashed out solutions to remaining disagreements about how these emissions are assessed, long term targets and special exemptions for auto-makers making ultra-low emission vehicles.…

RECENT technical advances and headline projects show how companies with market leadership in high voltage direct current (HVDC) and Ultra HVDC (UHVDC) are pushing the envelope of what these technologies can do.

Since Sweden’s ASEA (now part of Swiss multinational ABB) installed the world’s first commercial HVDC link, under the Baltic Sea to the Swedish island of Gotland in 1954, it has become the technology of choice for transmitting current over very long distances on land or subsea.…

European Commission today (Tuesday) launched a comprehensive action plan designed to boost the European Union’s (EU) steel sector, using a combination of subsidies helping production and stimulating local demand, regulatory liberalisation, plus funding training and research.

Announcing the plan this afternoon in Strasbourg, at the European Parliament, EU industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani noted that a third of EU steel manufacturing capacity was currently unused: “Todays’ action plan could not wait anymore,” said Tajani.…

REVISED European Union (EU) nuclear safety rules proposed by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, may undermine the authority of national safety regulators and complicate the work of nuclear operators, according to Foratom, the organisation representing the interests of the European nuclear industry.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a detailed progress report on its promotion of raw material supplies in Europe. It said Brussels will release an implementation plan for its 2012 raw materials initiative by December, boosting the availability of key industrial minerals, including rare earths, in the European Union (EU).  …

Zagreb-based CIOS, one of the leading scrap metal businesses in Southeast Europe, and Eurometrec, the European Metal Trade and Recycling Federation, have told Metal Bulletin that the scrap metal industry in Croatia, which is to join the EU on July 1, has the potential to expand significantly over the next few years.…