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ITALIAN CRIME FIGHTERS TACKLE NEW WAVE OF CONTRABAND TOBACCO WITH EU AND PRODUCERS
BY JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, IN ROME
Italy may not have the strongest tobacco black market, but it is a key portal into Europe for smuggling. This is fuelled by Italy’s long-coastline and strong organised crime organisations. Italian law enforcement has been fighting the problem, making seizures.…
EU ROUND UP - CONFECTIONERY INDISTRY FIGHT PROPOSALS TO DELAY END OF EU SUGAR QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE’S confectionery industry is fighting rearguard moves at the European Parliament to delay the abolition of European Union (EU) quotas on EU sugar production. A report from French conservative MEP Michel Dantin on the new EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has proposed that the quotas stay until 2020 – they are currently to be phased out by 2015.…
INTERNATIONAL DYER AND FUTURE MATERIALS - CONFERENCE HEARS HOW EU RESEARCH PROMOTES SMART TEXTILES AND HIGHLY CUSTOMISED CLOTHING IN EUROPE
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
PAOLO Canonico, the chairman of the European Technology Platform for the future of textiles and clothing has told researchers and textile businesses he sees enormous opportunities for textile research and innovation in the Horizon 2020 programme proposed in December by the European Commission.…
BRUSSELS NEGOTIATES RESTRICTIVE OPEN SKIES DEAL WITH SRI LANKA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESTRICTIVE open skies agreement has been negotiated between the European Commission and Sri Lanka that incorporates existing bilateral civil aviation agreements struck with individual European Union (EU) member states. The agreement includes deals previously struck by Sri Lanka with Austria, Belgium, Britain, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden.…
BRUSSELS PONDER FORCING MEMBERS STATES, CONSUMERS AND MANUFACTURERS TO RECEYCLE MORE METAL
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering the introduction of laws that would force European Union (EU) member states, consumers and producers to increase the amount of metal that is recycled and re-used from waste streams. These would include EU mandated taxation on waste; compulsory ‘pay-as-you-throw’ schemes charging consumers who fail to recycle metal waste; and enforced producer responsibility schemes, obliging manufacturers to support the costs of organising the collection and recycling of specific waste streams.…
EU ROUND UP - EU CONSIDERS OFFSHORE LIABILITY ACCIDENT REGIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is launching an inquiry into establishing a European civil liability regime for offshore oil and gas companies involved in major accidents. They could then fund repairs and compensation for damage they cause without relying on local governments.…
GREEK COSMETICS INDUSTRY: A YEAR OF UNCERTAINTY
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
THE GREEK cosmetics market is still holding up, but with difficulty as the country faces years of austerity measures and recession. Although there have been no major mergers or closures in the country’s personal care product market, the market looks far from healthy.…
GREECE: ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
ACCOUNTANTS and auditors in Greece have found themselves at the centre of the country’s ongoing political and economic crisis, and it is a far from comfortable place to be. Depending on who one speaks to, Greek official data had been cooked either when the country entered the Eurozone or when it asked for help; Greece was either saved by default or managed a controlled default; the conditions for the bailout loans by the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are either putting Greece back on track or are deconstructing the labour and social framework of the country.…
GREEK MONKS UNLOCK SECRETS TO ANCIENT DYES
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
ANCIENT, natural techniques for making dyes and pigments have been made available today’s textile industry as a result of a European Union (EU)-funded research project, Med-Colour-Tech. A consortium of Mediterranean institutions, headed by the Ormylia Art Diagnosis Centre, operating under the auspices of the Sacred Convent of the Annunciation, Dependency of the Monastery of Simonos Petra at Greece’s Holy Mountain, identified dyes and materials used in different historical periods.…
ECJ SCUPPERS BRUSSELS' ORDER FOR EXTRA EXCISE DUTY PAYMENTS BY ALUMINA PRODUCERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALUMINA producers in Ireland, Italy and France have escaped an order from the European Commission that they pay their respective governments additional excise duty for heavy fuel oil they bought between 2002 and 2003. Brussels had told them to pay up because the companies had enjoyed a reduced rate of duty, which the Commission concluded was an illegal disguised subsidy.…