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VENEZUELA PHARMA SECTOR STARVED OF FOREIGN CURRENCY
Venezuela’s pharma sector is in critical condition as medicine manufacturers and traders are struggling to get their hands on hard currency, hindering them from importing medicines and manufacturing ingredients and materials. US dollars are crucial for most industries in the country’s import-reliant country, which earns most hard currency from oil exports.…
OCEAN ENERGY INNOVATION MOVES AHEAD, POTENTIALLY OPENING NEW GREEN ENERGY FRONT
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.”…
ITALY’S COSMETICS INDUSTRY EXPORTS KEEPS SALES BUOYANT DURING TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES
WHEN the Percassi family, owners of the successful make-up brand KIKO Make Up Milan, purchased in October 2013 a UNESCO-listed historic industrial site called Crespi d’Adda in northern Italy, it was not only a sign of their success, but proof of the old adage that tough economic times can be good for the beauty industry. …
INNOVATIVE AND LOCAL AFRICA FINANCE CORPORATION RECEIVES HIGH CREDIT RATING
AFTER six years of financing some of the largest infrastructure projects across Africa, a groundbreaking multilateral development institution – the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) – has attained its investment grade international credit rating. Moody’s Investors Service assigned the corporation an A3 (long term) /P2 (short term) foreign currency debt rating, making the AFC, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria the second highest investment grade rated financial institution based on the African continent, following the long-established Africa Development Bank (ADB).…
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.…
EU SAFETY REPORT HIGHLIGHTS PROBLEMS CAUSED BY RECALLS, BUT AUTO-MAKERS CAN MITIGATE EFFECTIVELY
WHEN a company issues a motor vehicle recall, there are a number of short term and long term implications. The company must consider the costs of repairing the vehicles, any legal costs that might arise, and, of course, its reputation.
But Paul Nieuwenhuis, co-director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School in the UK, said companies often decide to cut costs when manufacturing a vehicle, calculating that the costs associated with issuing a recall as a result would be worth it.…
MERCK CANADA PATENT PROTECTION IN PORTUGAL HAS EXPIRED SAYS ECJ
PHARMACEUTICAL manufacturers in the European Union (EU) can only protect their active ingredients against exploitation by generic manufacturers for 15 years, even when securing patent protection expiring at a later date. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the maximum combined duration of protection gained from patents and supplementary protection certificates approved during patent applications is 15 years.…
IMI COMMITTEE CHIEFS ELECTED
A NEW chair of the European Union Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) scientific committee has been elected –Professor Maria Beatriz da Silva Lima, a pharmacology and pharmacotoxicology specialist from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. The vice chair will be Professor Markus Perola, of Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare.…
WTO TRADE FACILITATION AGREEMENT WILL HELP MOVE LEAF AND MANUFACTURED PRODUCT WORLDWIDE
THE WORLD’S tobacco trade is not always a straightforward affair, being held up by export and import licence applications, port dues, quality checks, corruption and unusual red tape. A new World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade Facilitation, struck last December, is designed to ease some of these difficulties.…
EUROPEAN REPORT TELLS CREDIT CARD CONSUMERS HOW TO OBTAIN REFUNDS FOR FRAUD, THEFT AND MIS-SELLING
A COMPREHENSIVE European report has informed consumers across the European Union (EU), Norway and Iceland about their legal rights to credit card refunds.
Written by a publicly-funded network of European Consumer Centres (ECC-Net), the report explains what rights are enjoyed by all EU citizens, and those in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein – members of the EU-associated European Economic Area (EEA).…