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LONG-TERM support for the wave and tidal energy industries has been announced by the European Commission, which this spring said it intended to support “the rapid development of key ocean energy technologies at the European level”.

European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said: “Ocean energy has a significant potential to enhance the security of supply”, adding that “a wide portfolio of renewable energy sources -including ocean energy” was necessary if non fossil fuels were to become “mainstream and integrated into the European energy system.”…

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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.…

SHALE gas has been inadvertently discovered by Norwegian researchers on the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The discovery, in the northernmost part of Norway, has prompted a debate over whether this could be an important addition to the world’s ever-increasing supplies of shale.…

WITH the deadline for the UNESCO Education for All goals now just two years away, a consensus is emerging that post-2015 global efforts to expand education should focus on the tertiary sector. That was the outcome of an Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda seminar staged on Wednesday (January 5) in Brussels that brought together educational experts and policy makers, hosted by the Norwegian government.…

THE SIGHT of wind turbines in an offshore oilfield is nothing new. Operators in the Gulf of Mexico have for years used small wind turbines on oil and gas installations to power SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) computerised systems to keep fields operating.…

THE NEWLY installed centre-right Norwegian government has stressed its determination to reduce or abolish controversial tariffs on meat imports from the European Union (EU), despite vocal opposition.

Having replaced the protectionist former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s socialist administration last month (October), the new Høyre (the Conservative Party of Norway) and Fremskrittspartiet (the Progress Party) government has said it wants to improve trade relations with the EU.…

NORWEGIAN researchers have told Industrial Minerals how they welcome a Euro 6 million grant has been approved by the European Commission to help them develop new technology to recover rare earth elements from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and iron ore tailings.…

International and major domestic food companies who want a share of India’s fast growing branded food consumer markets have one major difficulty especially – dealing with the country’s underdeveloped and fragmented distribution networks.

These are especially complex given India’s cultural diversity.…

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared that Norway’s anti-BSE controls are sufficiently robust to be considered as effective as those in the European Union (EU).

Norway remains outside the EU, and although it implements many EU rules as part of the European Economic Area (EEA), it has complete independence over food production matters, and difference in regulation can restrict its access to EU meat markets.…

EASTERN European textile and clothing companies used to have a cost advantage in serving wealthy western European markets, but that has long been eclipsed by Asian competition – added value technical textiles may offer them a sustainable future.

In Poland’s hard-pressed textile industry, its fast-growing technical branch may constitute the future of the national industry, experts in the country’s industry say.…