The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has said that it welcomes the European Parliament's decision to reject the European Commission's (EC) proposal to reduce the number of free carbon allowances. According to EUROFER, the European ...
Tags: EU Parliament, Carbon Allowances
Tests of beef products conducted across Europe showed that almost 5% of them were tainted with horse meat, and this percentage was higher in some countries such as France and Greece. In February, the European Union, Switzerland and Norway ...
Tags: Beef Products, Horse Meat
Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on the government to establish an ad hoc committee in a bid to control the mislabeling of meat products in South Africa. DA MP Annette Steyn said it will request that the ad hoc committee institute a ...
Despite the rejection this week by Italy's Constitutional Court of a bid by local prosecutors to shut down the Taranto facilities of Italian steel producer Ilva, the prosecutors have today, April 12, turned down a request by Ilva's lawyers ...
Tags: Ilva, Steel Stocks
Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in food packaging such as tins, bottles (including baby bottles until recently), and boxes as well as in dental fillings. Its use has been a concern among food and health officials and governments for several ...
Tags: BPA, Packaging, Printing, food packaging
Improving users' experiences is no justification for using consumer information in big data projects, according to Europe's top data protection officials. The Article 29 Working Group, which includes the data protection supervisors from ...
Tags: Data, software, Computer Products
EU-listed and large private oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to reveal more about their payments to governments under new EU rules agreed informally late Tuesday by EU negotiators. Some big oil companies, including Shell, had ...
The garment manufacturers of Pakistan are pinning hope on the approval of the European Union’s Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP Plus) status to their country by the EU Commission at Brussels. According to the industry ...
Tags: Garment Makers, Garment, Apparel
Bangladesh's extensive diplomatic efforts and constant lobbying has saved one billion dollar RMG export to Canada, and paved the smooth way for future export. The Parliament of Canada has recently decided to amend the relevant criteria in ...
North West MEP, Chris Davies, saw first-hand the benefits of NSG Group’s investment in a new high-tech off-line glass coating facility, during a visit to a Pilkington Glass factory in St Helens. The North West of England MEP and ...
Tags: energy saving glass, glass, glass coating
In the March 2013 budget statement the Chancellor announced that he “will exempt from next year the industrial processes for that industry [ceramics] and some others from the Climate Change Levy. And in the Spending Round we will ...
Tags: glass manufacturers, glass, glass industry
The European Commission has today presented a package of initiatives to make trademark registration systems all over the European Union cheaper, quicker, more reliable and predictable. The proposed reform would improve conditions for ...
India’s garment exports to the world have grown by 21.15 percent from US$ 10.685 billion in 2008 to US$ 12.945 billion in 2012, while China’s apparel exports during the same period have grown by 31.21 percent from US$ 113.021 ...
Tags: garment exports, garment, apparel exports
INVESTORS traded through the political leadership drama in Canberra yesterday with an eye firmly on the federal election in September, encouraged that almost three years of minority government that has contributed to uncertainty on policy ...
Oil futures settled higher Wednesday, partially rebounding from Tuesday's sharp selloff on uncertainty in Cyprus, after weekly inventory data from the US Energy Information Administration proved to be unexpectedly bullish. NYMEX April ...
Tags: Oil, Chemicals, Metallurgy