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AIRPORTS and air traffic controllers could soon use data generated from supercomputers to solve many of their safety and capacity challenges.

High performance computing (HPC), which makes billions of calculations per second, is already being used by the aviation sector for forecasting weather and in designing aircraft – notably for engines, said Alastair McKinstry, environmental sciences activity leader at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC).…

AN AGREEMENT was struck last night in Brussels over plans to introduce a 95 grams of CO2 emissions per kilometer target for new automobiles sold in the European Union (EU) by 2020. Representatives from the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers thrashed out solutions to remaining disagreements about how these emissions are assessed, long term targets and special exemptions for auto-makers making ultra-low emission vehicles.…

REPRESENTATIVES of the European Parliament, the European Union (EU) governments and of the European Commission reached a deal today how producer organisations can represent beef and veal producers under a revised EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Under the new system, veal and beef producer organisations will be authorised to negotiate contracts for the supply of live cattle for slaughter on behalf of their members as long as “the quantity of beef and veal production covered by such negotiations which is produced in any particular member state does not exceed 15 % of the total national production of each product covered by the negotiations,” according to the agreed legislative text.…

SUCCESSFUL meat producers will be breathing a sigh of a relief that the newly agreed reform of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will not punish them as severely as they feared.

A key thread of the reform was decoupling subsidies from production, so livestock farmers got a subsidy linked to farm hectares.…

EUROPEAN biofuel industry knew it was in for a rough ride when the European Commission announced last October that it would stop subsiding food-based biofuels from 2020 and support the production of secondary biofuels based on waste matter and algae. But maybe it was not prepared for how the European Parliament would try to amend the proposals by introducing regulatory distinctions between types of biofuels that discriminate against biodiesel.…

AT a time when the world seems increasingly led by lifelong politicians, it is perhaps refreshing to hear from a political leader who has a solid background in business, and such is former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Speaking to Accountancy Futures, he showed how more than half-a-century of business and public life can be brought to bear in financial and commercial mentorship.…

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.…

A LACK of proper controls by European Union (EU) countries and dissuasive sanctions on fraud in the food chain are the causes of the current horsemeat scandal ravaging Europe, EU health and consumer policy Commissioner Tonio Borg has declared.

Members of the European Parliament’s health and food safety committee agreed with him during a meeting in Brussels on Thursday.…

MEMBERS of the European Parliament’s public health and food safety committee asked last night for horsemeat supplies within the European Union (EU) to be subjected to better traceability requirements because of the ongoing labelling scandal. “We have very strict rules on the traceability of bovines, and we need better traceability of horsemeat,” said an Irish member of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) Mairead McGuinness speaking during a debate at the parliament’s Brussels building.…

TWO property fraudsters who rooked Allied Irish Banks (AIB) and Bank of Scotland (BoS) for hundreds of millions of pounds in loans were jailed for a total of 12 years in London on January 17, in a case exposing lax lending oversight during the 2003-2008 boom years.…