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The Association of Portuguese Distributors (APED) has warned that a controversial new law effectively banning supermarket discounts will harm consumers, food suppliers and retailers. APED president Ana Isabel Trigo Morais said that the “negative impacts” of the law would cause price rises.…

EU VAT FORUM PILOT EXTENDED ONE MORE YEAR THE EUROPEAN Commission is to carry out an evaluation of the European Union (EU) regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 that says EU listed companies must use international financial reporting standards (IFRS) to produce their consolidated accounts.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a report claiming that original product and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers are increasingly cooperating, and where they strike agreements, they are less likely to restrict generic sales.

Its 2013 survey on the issue said 183 patent settlement agreements were concluded between originator and generic companies in 2012 within the European Union (EU), compared to 120 in 2011.…

SPANISH meat producers secured increasingly healthy prices in 2013 as the country crept out of recession in the second half, figures from its ministry of agriculture, food and the environment (MAGRAMA) show.

Category E pork (55% – 59% leanness) rose by 11.4% on 2012 to average EUR1.936 per kilo, 10.3% greater than the European Union (EU) average, peaking at EUR2.171/Kg.…

An interim report from the European Universities Association (EUA) on the pattern of public funding for universities has highlighted how the character of funding for HE institutions in Europe is changing, largely though not entirely, as a result of the economic pressures facing governments.…

A DETAILED report on tax rates levied in 30 rich countries has been released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD). It said that ratios of tax revenues to GDP rose in 21 of these 30 countries in 2012 (the largest in Hungary, Greece, Italy and New Zealand), falling in nine countries, with the steepest falls in Israel, Portugal and Britain.…

ALTHOUGH Colombia’s pharmaceutical sector has enjoyed growth over the past few years, new price controls could disrupt the sector’s expansion if they are poorly planned, industry representatives claim.

Their concerns focus on the reaction to maximum price controls on medication recently approved by the government.…

The southern African nation of Botswana has a glittering reputation for its gem diamonds, of which it is largest producer in the world. But on a continent where widespread corruption and poor governance have until recently inhibited foreign investment, Botswana – with a population of only two million people in a landlocked area larger than France – has acquired a reputation as a poster child for financial probity.…

TECHNICAL and security experts have gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to consider how to roll-out developing automated border control (ABC) systems, which offer hard-pressed airports the ability to better process surging passenger numbers.

Staged at ICAO’s headquarters, in Montréal, Canada, from October 22 to 24, the agency’s ninth symposium and exhibition on MRTDs [machine readable travel documents] biometrics and border security debated ABC developments such as newly-emerging technologies; trust issues; reliability; non-intrusiveness; biometrics; effective inspections tools; trusted traveller programmes; challenges to border integrity and ways to address them.…

THE EXTENT of waste in Europe’s austerity-hit public health services was one of the ‘elephants in the room’ – a big issue seldom discussed – identified by a professionals’ conference in Brussels, Belgium, on September 4 and 5.

150 delegates at the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) annual conference heard that, on average, between 3% and 10% of budgets for European Union (EU) national health systems was lost through waste, but in some cases could even reach 30%.…