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UK CAR SCRAPPAGE SCHEME MAY NOT WORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has indicated that Britain’s new Pounds 2,000 old car scrappage scheme may not work, because of high levels of UK personal indebtedness.
The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’ by the Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has shown how Germany’s scrappage scheme has been markedly successful – in contrast to those in other EU member states, such as France and Italy.…
EU RESEARCHERS SEEK INTEGRATION OF NEW HIGH TECH AUTO PART MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is trying to outmode traditional stamping of auto structure parts by integrating three new formation techniques in a seamless production system.
The Euro 6 million PROFORM project participants aim to unveil its technology at a conference next year.…
GLOBAL FOOD COMMODITY PRICE VOLATILITY HERE TO STAY
BY ANDREW CAVE
Food commodity prices are seldom out of the news nowadays, due to a mushrooming global population, the food-for-fuel controversy, an increasing focus on sustainability and the continued growth of the organic sector. However, beyond the generality of crop prices spiralling to new highs in 2007 and 2008 and then plummeting – in some cases – back to where they were before the boom, the picture is far from uniform.…
ECJ LIMITS MONOMERS CONTROLLED BY REACH TO THOSE INTEGRATED IN POLYMERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTEMPT by an international group of polymer exporters and importers to avoid having to register under the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system the monomers used to make their products appears to have failed.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has now made an important ruling that confirms the need for importers and EU manufacturers of polymers to register "reacted monomers which are integrated in polymers."…
SCANT INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING STANDARDS EXIST FOR STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING CONTROLS
BY ANDREW CAVE
WHO regulates money laundering at the stock exchange listings of companies around the world? If this is a beguilingly simplistic question, then the answer is anything but.
The reply depends not only upon which country one is referring to but also on which companies list in which market and in which stock exchange sector.…
INNOVATION ABOUNDS IN DEVELOPING SECOND GENERATION BIOFUELS
BY MARK ROWE and GAVIN BLAIR
THE ANSWER to the world’s future fuel needs may be literally all around us, and freely available in abundance, thanks to the throw-away society of the 21st century. Bioenergy, produced from all matter of waste products, from wood chips, to agricultural husks and slurry, has been steadily elevated up the list of potential sources of energy that will be required in a low-carbon world.…
EU HEADS OF GOVERNMENT APPROVE NEW EUROPEAN FINANCIAL SUPERVISION SYSTEM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of government have agreed to establish a new Europe-wide system of financial supervision, imposing arbitration on national regulators disagreeing over controls of cross-border banks and other financial organisations. The decision follows tough bargaining at Friday’s EU summit in Brussels between Britain – which wanted to minimise EU controls over its financial sector – and France and Germany, which favoured a strong European financial watchdog.…
HUGUETTE LABELLE SAYS FIGHTING CORRUPTION TAKES TENACITY AND CLARITY OF PURPOSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CORRUPTION begets fraud and fraud begets corruption, and there are few harder crimes to tackle than complex frauds rooted in institutionalised and culturally tolerated corruption. As a result, the work of international organisation Transparency International has been key in fighting fraud worldwide, especially that linked to corruption.…
GERMANY'S HANDLING OF THE AUTO INDUSTRY RECESSION DRAWS PRAISE IN EU REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has highlighted the success of Germany in fighting recession within its domestic car market and preventing full-time lay-offs. The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’, has been released by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, a Dublin-based EU agency.…
EU FOOD POLICY LIBERALISERS CAN EXPECT SWEDISH BACKING DURING PRESIDENCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUPPORTERS of liberalising the European Union’s (EU) common agriculture policy and other food subsidy regimes can expect a helping hand from the new Swedish presidency of the EU from July 1.
Sweden has traditionally allied itself with Britain, the Netherlands, and eastern European liberalisers in the EU Council of Ministers, which it will chair for six months until the end of this year.…