A new European guide aimed at avoiding IT vendor lock-in could save the public sector more than$1.3 billion a year. The policy,announced by the European Commission Tuesday,involves using open standards rather than vendor-specific ...
Tags: Vendor, public sector, open standards, tendering procedures
Companies who have been assessing Google's planned remedies to anti-competitive practices called on the European Commission on Tuesday to reject them and to consider regulating Internet search. Google has been under investigation by the ...
Tags: Google, Utilities, Internet search, complainants
Supermarkets in the UK could start using a new machine that marks fruit with laser “tattoos”, meaning sticky labels may soon become a thing of the past, according laser labelling technology specialist Laser Food The Spanish ...
On 4th June 2013, the European Commission imposed anti-dumping duties on PV products imported from China. The initial duty will be 11.8% on all Chinese solar products and will be effective for the period June 6 to August 6, 2013 and ...
Tags: Construction&Decoration, Solar, China
The European Commission (EC) has imposed a fine of €146m on nine pharma companies, including Ranbaxy Laboratories, for blocking the entry of cheaper generic drug of Lundbeck's anti-depressant, citalopram. Lundbeck agreed with each of ...
Tags: Ranbaxy, Halting Generic Drugs
Switzerland-based Celgene International Sárl has received approval from the European Commission (EC) to allow its Revlimid drug to treat patients with transfusion-dependent anaemia. While other remedial options could not yield ...
New trade talks between the EU and US will create growth opportunities for Europe's food and drink industry, claim manufacturers, who together exported £11.67bn of food and drink to the country last year. Trading places: New US/EU ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Chinese photovoltaic (PV) firms transfer production capacity overseas in succession in a bid to reduce impact delivered by anti-dumping tax imposed on their exports. Comtec Solar Systems Group Ltd. (SEHK: 0712), a Shanghai-based PV ...
Tags: PV, Electronic
China-based solar firm China Sunergy (Csun) announced the opening of its new solar product manufacturing facility in Turkey at the end of May. This announcement came days before the announcement regarding anti-dumping tariffs of 11.8% on ...
Commenting on the debate which is currently raging1 concerning the European Commission's placing of import tariffs on solar panels Richard Molloy, Renewable Energy spokesperson for Eaton UK said, "Opinion is divided with vehement views on ...
Tags: Construction, steel
Europe solar installations are forecast to fall by more than 6GW in 2013, with 1.3 GW of this decline attributed to incoming EU anti-dumping duties on China-made modules, according to IHS. IHS has cut its forecast for the second half of ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Duties, Energy
Image courtesy of Greenpeace. Board members from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have met with ministers from shipping nations around the world and the secretary general of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), to ...
Glass for Europe, an association made up of Europe’s flat glass manufacturers, has issued a statement related to the European Commission’s (EC) anti-subsidy investigation into imports of solar glass from China. In the statement, ...
The European Commission (EC) has approved the proposed acquisition of the Cocoa Ingredients division of Singapore-based Petra Foods by Swiss confectionery firm Barry Callebaut for $950m. The investigation conducted by the Commission ...
Tags: Ingredients Division, Food
Yingli Green Energy (Yingli Solar), a China-based solar firm, has commented on the imposition of preliminary anti-dumping duties by the European Commission (EC) targeting solar products originating in China as well as those shipped from ...
Tags: Yingli Solar, Anti-Dumping Duties