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COUNTRIES MULL CARBON NEUTRALITY IN WAKE OF PARIS CLIMATE CONFERENCE – BUT WILL THEY ACHIEVE IT?
THE PARIS conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last December, of COP21, made a commitment to create a carbon-neutral world between 2050 and 2100. This means that governments and international organisations must devise policies to ensure the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity equals the amount that that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally preventing the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere.…
UK FOOD COMPANIES EXPORTING TO EU FACE RISKS OF PAYING DUTIES IF BREXIT FOLLOWED THROUGH
Branded food manufacturers based in Britain face a risk that their exports to the European Union (EU) will attract duties now the UK government has confirmed it will push ahead with leaving the EU following the June 23 Brexit referendum result.…
CHINESE TOURISTS SENSE OF ROMANCE, PRESTIGE AND ADVENTURE ATTRACT THEM TO GREECE
Chinese travellers are increasingly venturing to Greece, offering great potential for its tourism industry. And while Greece’s exotic landscapes and architecture attract visitors from China, the tourism industry could prosper still further from developing services and infrastructure designed to cater to this growing market.…
BRITISH SPORTS EXECUTIVE JAILED OVER MAJOR FRAUD
Southwark Crown Court, in London, has sentenced a former CEO of a major British sports good retailer JJB Sports to five years in prison for three fraud offences, totalling around GBP1 million, and for two offences of ‘furnishing false information’. Christopher Ronnie’s co-defendants, David Ball and David Barrington, owners of Fashion and Sport Ltd, a company that sold clothing brands and supplied stock to now dissolved JJB, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.…
BRITISH SPORTS EXECUTIVE JAILED OVER MAJOR FRAUD
Southwark Crown Court, in London, has sentenced a former CEO of a major British sports good retailer JJB Sports to five years in prison for three fraud offences, totalling around GBP1 million, and for two offences of ‘furnishing false information’. Christopher Ronnie’s co-defendants, David Ball and David Barrington, owners of Fashion and Sport Ltd, a company that sold clothing brands and supplied stock to now dissolved JJB, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.…
ECC-NET’S 2013 ANNUAL REPORT - NATIONAL UNIT ROUND UP
AUSTRIA
The location of ECC Austria in central Vienna means many consumers drop by to receive advice or lodge complaints in person with the ECC’s five staff members. A top priority in 2013 was increasing public awareness about e-commerce fraud; a brochure aimed at combatting the problem was published and more than 600,000 were distributed throughout Austria.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BOOSTS AIR PASSENGER RIGHTS IN KEY VOTE
THE EUROPEAN Parliament voted yesterday in a plenary meeting that air passengers facing a flight delay should be compensated if forced to wait for more than three hours, instead of five hours proposed by the European Commission. MEPs voted an exhaustive list of exceptional circumstances in which the airline is not required to pay compensation, such as “bird strikes, political unrest and unforeseen labour disputes”.…
VOLCANO-PRONE SEISMIC REGIONS DEVELOP SOPHISTICATED ASH WARNING SYSTEMS
THE WIDESPREAD disruption to European air-travel caused by the dramatic large-scale volcanic eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in March 2010 has prompted close assessments of air traffic control procudures in countries with significant seismic activity.
The 2010 disruption was a costly experience for airlines and air-passenger traffic.…
BRUSSELS PROPOSES LAW FORCING MAJOR EU COMPANIES TO DISCLOSE CYBER ATTACKS
MAJOR companies within the European Union (EU) suffering from major cybercrime attacks will have to inform regulators under a proposed EU directive on network and information security. If the legislation is approved by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, it would assign that duty to operators of critical infrastructure in the financial, transport, energy and health sectors; IT services, such as app stores, e-commerce platforms, internet payment systems, cloud computing companies, search engines and social network; plus public administrations.…
EUROPEAN AVIATION CRISIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM STILL WORK IN PROGRESS
ALMOST three years after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull which closed the European air space and left millions of passengers stranded in airports across the continent, a network of European institutions charged with handling such and other similar crises is still finding its feet.…