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ANXIETY is growing in the European Union (EU) confectionery industry that Britain’s proposed front-of-pack colour-coded labelling scheme could upset the EU market by distorting competition and undermining Europe’s much-vaunted common market. The UK government’s department of health is to bring in nutrition labelling rules by this summer that will give prominent billing to the level of fat, saturated fat, salt, sugar and calories in confectionery and other food products.…

THE QUESTION of whether publicly-supported refuelling and recharging stations are needed to jump-start demand for electric, hydrogen and other alternatively-powered vehicles seems almost as old as the conundrum about the chicken and the egg. Yet, a clear answer has yet to be supplied – and with green vehicle sales still generally weak – the European Commission has decided that for Europe, it might as well push ahead with proactively creating refuelling/charging networks anyway.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission looks set to propose binding legislative standards for the 27 European Union (EU) member states to follow in exploring unconventional fossil fuel resources amid public concern over the environmental and social impact consequences of the main production method – hydraulic fracturing or fracking.…

WHILE Latin America has not seen the growth witnesses by emerging markets in Asia, their paint and coatings sectors are still strengthening, and can build on a higher historic levels of prosperity than most Asian countries.

And the industry is more robust than many.…

POLITICAL battle-lines are being drawn over the oncoming debates at the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers on the shape of the revised tobacco products directive. While formal amendments have yet to be proposed, preliminary discussions are giving the industry a good idea of the challenges to be faced over the coming months.…

IN recent years Ethiopia’s knitwear industry has experienced a boom. As well as several major companies, including Primark, Tesco, and H&M now sourcing knitwear from Ethiopia, some Asia-based factory owners have moved production to Ethiopia, and various domestically-owned plants are developing.…

BANGLADESH and Turkey are knitwear rivals, with differing levels of development. Bangladesh overtook Turkey in 2010 becoming the world’s second largest knitwear manufacturer (by output) in the year ending June 2010, pushing the Turks into third place.

In the year ending June 2010, Bangladesh exported 7.78 billion pieces of knitted items or USD 6.48 billion worth of knitwear, overtaking Turkey’s shipment of 7.74 billion pieces, according to BKMEA.…

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has rejected a claim by the Swiss government that Germany had breached a 1999 European Union-Switzerland air transport agreement by restricting night and early morning flights to and from Zurich airport. Berlin insists on altitude minimums over German territory.…

THE RESULTS of the inquiry by Britain’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) into higher pump prices for petrol and diesel over the last 10 years appear to have wrong-footed pundits and dismayed motorists and business groups. Most people, it seems, had expected the probe, whose conclusions were announced at the end of January, to find at least some evidence of market manipulation and profiteering at various points in the fuel supply chain.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed using European Union (EU) legislative power to force member states to make alternative fuels available to transport consumers. It has proposed legislation that would set a minimum number of public electrical charging points per EU country by 2020: for instance, 122,000 in Britain, and 150,000 in Germany.…