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European metal thieves have been targeted by an international law enforcement operation coordinated by European Union (EU) police agency Europol. Its officials said that more than 120 tonnes of stolen copper was confiscated in Italy alone and there were many arrests, with 37 made in just country – Bulgaria.…

THE TURKISH textile and garment industry body told just-style said that there has been no disruption to its delivery of orders following the civil unrest that has been taking place in the country for more than a week. The anti-government protests, which began on May 31 in Istanbul, extended to a two-day strike in Turkey’s major cities on June 4 to 5 by thousands of trade union members.…

BIOMETRICS technologies producing voice and phone ‘fingerprints’ to prevent, detect and prosecute fraud and other crimes are evolving rapidly in an arms race between fraudsters, law enforcement, private companies and private sector anti-fraud companies.

For forensics, many jurisdictions admit voice biometrics in evidence.…

is traditionally a major supplier of biodiesel to the European Union (EU) market, but trade flows have reduced sharply in the past year and could fall further with an anti-dumping duty soon expected. An additional anti-subsidy countervailing duty may also be imposed on the Southern Cone nation.…

The agreed acquisition of Spain headquartered steel waste recycler Befesa Medio Ambiente has moved on with formal notification to the European Commission for consideration by European Union competition watchdogs.

Befesa’s Spanish parent Abengoa announced in April that it had struck an exclusive agreement to sell 100% of its subsidiary to an acquisition vehicle of a fund managed by private equity firm Triton Partners in a deal valued by Abengoa at EUR1.075 billion and which was approved earlier this month by Abengoa bondholders.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has been researching the pharmaceutical applications of active ingredients extracted from herbs and aromatic plants found in Morocco. The Euro EUR442,000 MAP2ERA project has been coordinated by Morocco’s Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, working with the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in France, Spain’s University of Alicante and Giraf PM, a German project management company.…

A PLANNED deepening of trade relations between the European Union (EU) and Morocco should streamline customs procedures for the EU clothing and textile industry, whether importing or exporting products from this key north African trading partner, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex) has told just-style.com.…

SPANISH cava and fine wines exporter Freixenet is stonewalling questions about reports that it could be on the verge of acquiring a bodega in the Rías Baixas area of Galicia, northwest Spain.

“We neither confirm nor deny this,” Freixenet spokeswoman Marta Raventos told just-drinks after Spanish-language drinks and food newsletter Alimarket suggested that the privately-held Catalan firm could soon re-establish a winemaking presence of its own in the area.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of states and governments have urged their ministers to agree important pieces of draft EU legislation that could potentially curb tax evasion in the bloc.

Meeting during a European Council meeting in Brussels last week (May 22), leaders were under pressure to act from media reports revealing how much untaxed incomes politicians, companies and rich business owners have stashed in tax havens.…

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has told Spain it should cease immediately taxing unrealised capital gains when a company transfers its base or assets to another European Union (EU) member state. Ruling that this breaks EU taxation fairness rules, judges said a company from Spain “is penalised financially as compared with a similar company which carries out such transfers in Spanish territory…,” which does not have to pay such tax.…