January 27, 2003, the European Parliament and the European Council adopted Directive 2002/95/EC, that is, "in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Restrictions on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances Directive" (The Restriction of the use ...
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The European Parliament has announced that about 98 percent of the customs duties that Ukrainian iron, steel, farm produce and machinery exporters pay at EU borders will be removed by a proposal backed by the European Parliament on ...
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Latest industry data – published today ahead of the European Commission 2012 figures expected at the end of 2014 – confirm average glass recycling rates in the European Union have passed the 70% mark. This means that over 25 ...
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Debate about infant formula marketing monitoring continues Paediatricians from Australasia’s largest specialist college, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) have urged the Federal Parliament to legislate to ...
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The Furniture Makers' Company has hosted its fourth annual Confederation Lunch in The Churchill Room at the House of Commons on March 26. The event was attended by industry's most prominent figures such as MPs to discuss the relevant issues ...
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The EC is proposing stricter laws for organic foods The European Commission (EC) has proposed a new Regulation or organic products and labelling of organic products, saying that consumer and producer concerns are at the heart of the new ...
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Australia's food and grocery body welcomes Government's deregulation moves The Australian food and grocery sector is supportive of the Australian Government's actions to reduce the regulatory burden on business, according to industry body ...
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Textiles and apparel from Ukraine are likely to get tariff exemption in the EU market from as early as May this year, as the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament has backed a plan to remove tariffs on imports from ...
Scottish government is set to launch a new food safety regulator, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), which will takeover the operations carried out by UK organization, the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The announcement comes as Food (Scotland) ...
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The European Union took another step on Thursday towards the mandatory introduction of a common mobile phone charger, which could power-up all makes of handsets. The European Parliament in Strasbourg voted in favour of draft legislation ...
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If you are basking in the convenience of doing an online bank transfer at a coffee house while spooning the cream off a designer special, consider the tradeoff, which is placing your personal data at risk. Also consider yourself warned by ...
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Members of the European Parliament (Europarl) have set up a new draft legislation to install the in-vehicle eCall system in all new models of cars and light vans in the European Union by October 2015. Under the new draft rule, which is ...
The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, ...
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The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has welcomed a landmark vote by MEPs in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee for a comprehensive overhaul of the European payments market. The Committee has sent a clear message that the time for ...
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Apparel firms in Honduras are gearing up for the soon to be implemented Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Canada. The Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement was signed on November 5, 2013, and it would come into force once it is approved ...
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