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Its launch may be more than a decade late, but the European Union’s (EU) first European Pressurised water Reactor (EPR) has finally started producing electricity for the Finnish national grid. Its strategic importance to Finland, as the country is preparing for NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is hard to overstate.…

The European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi has called for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) to be strengthened with rule changes to make it more independent and effective. Presenting the EPPO’s annual report for 2021 to a joint meeting of the European Parliament’s committees on civil liberties, justice and home affairs and on budgetary control April 20, Kövesi argued for “radical simplification” of the founding EPPO regulation (1) and a shift of competence and budget to the central office in Luxembourg to guarantee the independence of delegated prosecutors in the 22 EPPO countries (2).…

Renewable energy systems are growing fast in scale and diversity worldwide. But as with any innovative technology, commercial criminals seek to exploit new online vulnerabilities. Keith Nuthall and Sarah Gibbons report.

Cybercrime attacks on energy systems can be high profile – witness the American Colonial Pipeline energy company ransomware attack, when the company paid out USD4.4 million to hackers.   …

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has launched its first draft major standards – on general sustainability and climate-related disclosure requirements. The general draft says how organisations should detail sustainability risk, opportunities, planning and more. The climate draft lays down rules for declarations on climate resilience, risk management and more.…

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Regulation, certification and liability have long been critical issues managed by textile executives, with consumer protection, industrial standardisation and chemical environmental health rules posing significant challenges to any professional fabric company. However, the advent of smart textiles has made such regulatory and legal considerations more complex, because of their integration of electronics and internet communications, which can bring such products under additional health and safety rules, along with privacy and cyber-crime statutes.…

The Covid-19 pandemic and latterly the Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked an increase in cybercrime and fraud, and the halal sector – reliant on compliance with detailed production and sales standards – is a soft target for commercial criminals.

This fact is compounded by the proliferation of halal certificates as the sector expands worldwide.…

Mumbai-based home textiles manufacturer and exporter Welspun India is upgrading and diversifying the use of an innovative technology system – ‘Wel-Trak’ – which tracks cotton through various stages of manufacturing. Patented in 2017, this digital solution provides complete traceability of the raw material’s processing and manufacturing history, from its country of ginning to, weaving and manufacturing, including shipping details.…

The Indian Ocean archipelago Maldives is developing an Islamic finance sector, although it may need to strengthen legislation and local turnover to attract enough international players to develop an offshore hub. The government established in 2016 the state-owned Maldives Centre for Islamic Finance Ltd (MCIF) charged with developing the country’s capacity to be a “hub for Islamic finance”, primarily in south Asia.…

Many Muslim countries, their governments and businesses, have adopted an uneasy neutrality towards Russia, as it continues its invasion of Ukraine.

Malaysia is a case in point – its close relations with European, north American and Asian countries (such as Japan and South Korea) means it will not want to breach their sanctions on Russia.…

China’s fast fashion cross-border e-commerce fashion retailer Shein is little known within China but its profile overseas continues to rise, with Reuters reports estimating the company may have generated about Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY100 billion (USD15.7 billion) in revenue in 2021 as the Covid-19 pandemic shifted global consumption online.…