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CIGARETTE FRAUD OPERATION HAILED AS NEW EU FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE FOR ANTI-FRAUD PROFESSIONALS
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of the first joint anti-smuggling operation involving law enforcement and customs officials from all 28 European Union (EU) member states. Coordinated by Lithuania’s customs service and tax inspectorate, which was working with EU anti-fraud office OLAF, the ‘Warehouse’ operation was also the first such EU operation to target excise and VAT fraud specifically, as well as customs fraud.…
EU ROUND UP - SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAGS SHOULD BE PHASED-OUT, SAYS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
LIGHTWEIGHT single-use plastic bags should be phased-out by 2020, the European Parliament said in January (Jan 14th) in a non-legally binding resolution. This was a formal response to a European Commission policy paper looking into managing plastic waste. MEPs also called for potentially toxic plastics to be withdrawn from the market.…
EU ROUND UP - EFSA PROPOSES TIGHTER LIMITS FOR BISPHENOL A
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has provisionally recommended that exposure levels to consumers from the plastic packaging chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) be lowered sharply. This follows a review of more than 450 studies, which identified “likely” damage to consumers’ livers, kidneys and potential harm to mammary glands “linked to exposure to the chemical.”…
RFID TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE FOOD AND DRINK SAFETY MONITORING
THE USE of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in the food and drink sector might have grown exponentially in the past 10 years, but the technology is likely to become even more ubiquitous worldwide. UK-based retailers and pioneers in the use of the technology Marks & Spencer and Tesco can now chalk up a decade of experience in the use of RFID, from distribution centre (DC) operations right through to retail floor item-level tagging.…
REGULATORY ROUND UP – MAJOR EU RESEARCH PROGRAMME TO FUND EUROPEAN TELCOS
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) telecoms sector will be able to tap significant research funds from the EU’s new Euro EUR80 billion Horizon 2020 research programme, which began on New Year’s Day and will run until 2020. The European Commission has already made its first formal call for research proposals, which are generally made of consortia with companies working with universities and research groups from different countries.…
ITALIAN TEXTILE MAKER CANEPA SEES GREEN FUTURE
With consumers becoming more aware of the environmental impact and social implications of the fashion and textile industries, Italian luxury textile manufacturer Canepa is addressing these issues in practical ways. Canepa, for instance, became a signed supporter of the Greenpeace Detox Campaign in September 2013.…
BRAZIL CAR TARIFFS HAVE CURBED CAR IMPORTS, TAKEN RESEARCH JOBS AWAY, SAYS EU OFFICIAL
BRAZIL’S taxes on imported products, meant to encourage domestic production, has curbed imports of motor vehicles from the European Union (EU) and in some cases even moved research and engineering jobs from Europe to Brazil, an EU official has told wardsauto.com. …
MALAYSIAN FINISHING INDUSTRY OUTLOOK OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CHALLENGING CLIMATE
A country famed for its beautiful traditional ‘batik,’ Malaysia is also home to a highly specialised textiles industry and these niche skills may prove vital for the country’s numerous finishing factories in what is shaping up to a challenging year. Economists are predicting a general slowing of the Malaysian economy, with average real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the next five years estimated in Q4 2013 at 3.4%, revised down 0.2% from Q4 in 2012 (slightly slower than the Asian average of 3.7%), according to the Ifo Institute for Economic Research/International Chamber of Commerce’s World Economic Survey of business experts published in November last year.…
TAIWAN’S TEXTILE FINISHING SECTOR GOING GREEN FOR GROWTH
THE TAIWAN textile dyeing and finishing sectors have never quite recovered from the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) abolition of global textile quotas in 2005. It resulted in the closure of many stand-alone units by making their labour-intensive manufacturing processes on the relatively wealthy island uncompetitive.…
EASTERN EUROPE COSMETICS SALES STILL SLUGGISH – WITH SALES TRENDS STARTING TO MIRROR WESTERN EUROPE
THE COUNTRIES of eastern and central Europe that came in from the cold in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall have felt the economic chill in recent years, with recession affecting the fortunes of the cosmetics industry.
Across a wide range of countries – for instance – Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia – the retail value of the beauty and personal care products market has remained at around Euro EUR10.70 billion in both 2012 and (according to provisional data for these five countries by market analysts Euromonitor International) in 2013; and is forecast to grow to EUR10.85 billion in 2014.…