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TÜRKIYE DAIRY PRODUCTION FALLS AS INDUSTRY STRUGGLES WITH INFLATION AND DEPRECIATING LIRA

UKRAINE STEPS UP FIGHT AGAINST COMMERCIAL CRIME, BUT CONCERNS REMAIN
While Ukraine battles an invading Russian enemy currently occupying approximately 18% of Ukrainian territory (1), it is also focused on its battle with the ‘enemy within’, namely elevated levels of corruption and other commercial crime.
Since the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Ukraine’s pro-Western authorities have worked tirelessly to align themselves with European Union (EU) anti-corruption and anti-fraud efforts, notably establishing the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in 2014, which prepares corruption cases for prosecution by a Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.…

CHINA CRACKING DOWN ON WEAK AUDITING OF ACCOUNTING CRIME
The Chinese auditing unit of accounting giant PwC has been fined a record Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY441 million (USD62.7 million) and banned from auditing in mainland China for six months after a regulator concluded it had “covered up and even condoned” fraud.…

CHEMICAL REGULATION DILEMMA FOR NEW UK GOVERNMENT
When the UK left the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2021, it also left the EU’s comprehensive REACH chemical control system, which was formally replaced by a UK REACH system. This mirrored EU REACH, grandfathering existing registrations and restrictions to the national system, although GB companies lost access to EU databases run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).…

ASIAN PAINT REGULATORY ROUND UP – CHINA CRITICISES EUROPEAN TITANIUM DIOXIDE ANTI-DUMPING DUTY

ASIAN PAINT REGULATORY ROUND UP – VIETNAM EXPANDS IMPORT SAFETY CONTROLS TO ALL CHEMICAL INPUTS
EUROPEAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS CALL FOR COMPETITIVENESS TEST TO KEEP INDUSTRY CREATIVE
European textile companies increasingly overburdened by regulation say each new piece of European Union (EU) regulation they face should be assessed on the grounds of how it helps industry succeed in an increasingly competitive market. They say more should be done to boost a sector that employs 1.3 million workers in 192,000 companies and provides more than EUR67 billion’s worth of exports to the 27-country bloc, according to the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex).…
ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES AND GOVERNMENT SCRAMBLE TO BOOST STUDENT HOUSING, AS SHORTAGES PROMPT PROTESTS
Concerns are growing about the shortage of student housing in Italy, with a series of rallies sparking a nationwide protest in over 25 cities during October (2023), with the government and universities scrambling to respond. The country’s HE accommodation challenges were highlighted nationally in May (2023) when an out-of-town environmental engineering student at Milan Polytechnic (Politecnico di Milano) pitched a tent and camped out in protest on university grounds, saying she could not afford to live elsewhere.…
EUA ROAD MAP OFFERS GUIDANCE FOR CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY CHANGES THAT MIGHT INSPIRE UNIVERSITIES WORLDWIDE
The European University Association (EUA) has been preparing higher education institutions for increased sustainability requirements as governments implement new commitments made at the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference, staged in December in Dubai.
It has been encouraging its 850 members, including 34 national rectors’ conferences, to follow its new EUA ‘Green Deal roadmap for universities’, which outlined policies and actions which can help universities follow a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable, and socially equitable path.…
EU MINISTERS APPROVE UPGRADE TO EUROPEAN GUIDANCE ON IMPROVING RESEARCHER PAY, CONDITIONS AND CAREERS
The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved formal guidance for EU member states on making research careers within Europe more attractive to help boost the number of talented researchers working in the EU. There is concern that Europe risks losing its primacy as the world’s top destination for researchers, in and outside of academia, with a European Commission note stressing that China now accounts for 21.1% of the world’s 8.85 million researchers (as per UNESCO figures for 2021), just under the EU’s 23.5% share, but above the USA’s 16.2%.…