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Control without constraint – EU’s e-money balance

Money flows constantly, always finding new, electronic channels. European legislators are hard at work on how to regulate rather than divert (much less stem) the tide of innovation. Robert Stokes reports on the current Fourth EU ML Directive proposals.…

THE TURKISH pharmaceutical industry is aiming to undergo a fundamental shift over the coming years as it attempts to move from being a producer largely of generics to become an important global centre for the production of original medicines.
Its government has said that it wants Turkey to become one of the world’s top 10 economies in health services by 2023 – the centenary of the establishment of the Turkish Republic – and to become the Eurasian production base for medium- and high-level technology products.…

PUERTO Rico opened on January 31 its first centre for the research and development of generic pharmaceuticals – the Center for the Development and Innovation of Pharmaceutical Products. It will be operated by Mexico-based Neolpharma, according to Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla’s office.…

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.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released criteria for awarding a European Union (EU) Ecolabel for indoor and outdoor paints and varnishes. A detailed guidance note covers conditions on white pigment and wet scrub resistance and titanium dioxide content. It also lays down standards on usage efficiency relating to spreading rates, water resistance, adhesion, abrasion, weathering, water vapour permeability, liquid water permeability, fungal resistance, crack bridging, alkali resistance and corrosion resistance.…

THE NEW Euro EUR78.6 billion research funding programme of the European Union (EU), Horizon 2020 offers opportunities for developing novel coatings that could be used to improve the insulation of buildings to make them more energy efficient.

The first calls for project proposals opened in December 2013.…

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.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released official guidance on how to protect the environment when ‘fracking’ for shale gas. It has given European Union (EU) member states 18 months to follow its suggestions, saying it will “review the effectiveness” of this voluntary approach after this deadline.…

The European Parliament motion backing the European Union’s (EU) steel action plan has passed in a resolution in Strasbourg last night (Tuesday). However, its author – Hungarian conservative András Gyürk – believes real public money needs to be spent to prevent EU steel production moving overseas.…

India’s steel industry still faces significant safety problems, despite government efforts to make the sector safer, the country’s steel minister has admitted.

In a recent statement to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, Beni Prasad Verma said in a written reply to a question that most accidents “occurred due to falls from height, gas poisoning, electrocution, burn injury and fire or explosions.”…