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COMMISSION’S AID PACKAGE WILL NOT COMBAT DAIRY WOES, CHARGES INDUSTRY
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s latest EUR500 million support package for European farmers, finalised at an August 26 European Union (EU) committee in Brussels, will not ease the dairy crisis, European dairy groups have warned.
“Production cuts is the label used to describe the current package of measures,” said the EU farm lobby group European Milk Board (EMB)’s president Romuald Schaber following the initial announcement of the plans in July.…
IN VIETNAM, COATINGS DEMAND EASILY OUTPACING STRONG ECONOMIC GROWTH
Vigorous expansion of export-oriented manufacturing and construction in 2015 spurred the fastest GDP growth in Vietnam in seven years, at 6.7% year-on-year, according to the Asian Development Bank. And although coatings consumption correlates generally well with economic growth, in Vietnam the 2015 year-on-year coatings production increase outpaced general economic expansion – it rose 11.1% year-on -year in 2015, to Vietnamese dong VND13 trillion (USD587 million), according to market researcher Euromonitor International.…
ACCOUNTANTS MUST SIGNPOST SMALL FIRMS TO VENTURE CAPITAL, CONFERENCE TOLD
Accountants share responsibility with banks to direct their small-and-medium-sized enterprise (SME) clients towards sources of finance, a Brussels conference has been told. Rebecca McNeil, head of SME lending at Barclays, said at a July 13 Brussels conference on ‘Capital Markets Union: delivering new opportunities for SMEs through venture capital’, declared: “We all have the duty of care, banks, accountants … to signpost SMEs to sources of finance.” …
EUROPE’S AUTO AND TELECOMS INDUSTRY JOIN FORCES TO TEST CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS
The European Union’s automotive manufacturing and telecommunications industry trade bodies July 7 unveiled plans for a joint test project in connected and automated driving, due to launch 2017. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), the European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA), the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO), the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) and the global association for the mobile telecoms industry (GSMA) will operate the research scheme.…
FATF MOVES TO CLARIFY DERISKING RULES ON CHARITIES
FACED with evidence that international charities continue to face restricted access to banks over de-risking concerns, the global AML body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) voted at its plenary session in South Korea in June to revise its Recommendation 8 and the accompanying Interpretative Note addressing the problem.…
EU AND US PUSH FOR TTIP DEAL THIS YEAR, DESPITE ENDURING DIFFERENCES
DISAGREEMENTS over the meat sector are holding up a deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States for a comprehensive, ambitious Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal by end 2016. Entrenched attitudes concerning a risk- (EU) or science-based (US) approach to meat trade will make this difficult to achieve.…
CHINA’S DYEING UNITS SEE THINGS SHAKEN UP BY GOVERNMENT’S MUCH TOUGHER NEW ENVIRONMENTAL STANCE
It has been a little over a year since China in April 2015 launched its comprehensive Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (called the ‘Water Ten Plan’), which has triggered profound changes within the country’s textile dyeing sector. Under the most stringent water policy to date in China, factories were given a maximum of three years to clean up and upgrade equipment for water recycling to avoid a shutdown by regulators.…
EU OCEAN ENERGY MOVES FORWARD, AHEAD OF NEW ROADMAP TO SPUR GROWTH
Europe in 2016 has been witness to significant milestones passed in deployment of new, full-scale demonstration and commercial tidal stream and wave energy projects.
This is encouraging for the European Union (EU), which wants clean, renewable ‘ocean energy’ to provide a tenth of its power by mid-century.…
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR TRAINING VITAL TO SERVE ON A ‘FOREIGN’ BOARD
Significant European Union (EU) company law changes are set to add to the training challenge for non-executive directors who are working on boards outside their home country. The difficulties are compounded where flexibility for member states or companies to implement directives, regulations and recommendations adds local nuances to the know-how required to serve on a board in a jurisdiction with which a director is not previously familiar.…
ASEAN AUTOMOTIVE TRADE DEAL COULD CONCENTRATE AUTO TRADE PRODUCTION IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
Asian paint and coatings manufacturers are set to benefit from the expansion of an existing automotive tariff-free zone spanning Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.…