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Museum and gallery professionals have long considered light a double-edge sword — vital to effectively showcase art, yet with the potential to destroy it — but recent innovations in paints and coatings could change that view.

Determining the degree of potential light damage on a painting is challenging, according to the US-based Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, due to the impact of a wide range of factors such as light intensity and type, total time of exposure and the natural resistance of the painting’s components.

THE BRITISH Coatings Federation (BCF) has continued to press the UK government to mitigate the problems caused by Britain’s Brexit withdrawal from the European Union (EU), as the country’s industry fights to preserve its income.

Both imports of raw materials and packaging supplies, as well as exports of finished products to and from the EU have been hindered by the red tape imposed on trade under the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) that underpinned Brexit, says the BCF.…

European Union (EU) member states are lagging in compliance with a requirement in the fifth anti-money laundering directive (5 AMLD) (1) to create public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers by January 10, 2020. A European Commission webpage (2) on 5AMLD compliance last updated June 2 (2022) shows 12 governments are facing infringement proceedings either because they have not adopted legislation writing the directive fully into national law or because they have implemented it incorrectly.…

The striking of a political agreement over a European Union (EU) directive that will guide how its 27 member states set minimum wages, with the goal of increasing pay in low salary sectors such as clothing and textile manufacturing, is being watched closely by the fashion industry.…

Consumers in Europe need to be offered clear labelling so that they only buy halal meat, especially from animals not pre-stunned before slaughter, if they want to, animal rights organisations and halal groups have told Salaam Gateway.

“We think it would be helpful if all meat was labelled pre-stunned or not so people can make informed choices,” said Dr Nick Palmer, head of Compassion in World Farming UK, an animal welfare campaign and lobbying group: “It is undesirable for non-pre-stunned meat to be accidentally purchased by consumers who would prefer to avoid it.”…

The Greek government is seeking to grow English language higher education courses by approving a new law which will aid the creation of new English taught degrees run by Greek universities with overseas HE institutions. While these programmes were already legal, the new law clarifies how they should be operated and controlled by administrative and academic staff.…

With Islamic finance strengthening and diversifying, service providers are increasingly targeting non-Islamic markets, competing directly with non-Islamic services. While demand in non-Islamic markets has historically been tied to factors spanning from real estate investment in GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) economies to wealth management of non-Islamic countries’ Muslim minority populations, additional tailwinds are now deriving from Islamic finance’s closeness to the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria used by socially conscious investors.…

As the Italian economy recovers from the particularly hard two-year coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s paints and varnishes sector is among the few to have weathered the storm well. “Our sector has probably never seen such a jump in growth like that of the past two years,” said Gianni Martinetti, president of the Paints and Varnishes Group of AVISA (1), which is part of Italy’s national chemicals industry association, Federchimica.  …

The Muslim world is extremely diverse culturally, so it is no surprise that colour cosmetics trends are many and varied. However, one clear universal trend is that Muslim women are on average becoming more knowledgeable about make-up, especially with internet influencers spreading advice on products and techniques.…