The prospect of downloading data, sending text messages and making calls without incurring huge roaming charges while travelling in Europe came a step closer on Tuesday when politicians voted in favor of new legislation. A call to end ...
Tags: Abolishing Roaming
Some 83% of UK consumers want method of production labelling, which clearly identifies the farm system used to produce the food, extended to meat and dairy products. Almost as many, 79%, said farm animal welfare was important when deciding ...
On September 1, 2013, the latest energy efficiency requirements for LED lighting products will be officially implemented in Europe. European energy efficiency requirements are mainly based on the requirements of the EU's ErP. Like LVD ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Energy, Lights, LED
In the first half of the current year, China's total external trade value amounted to $1.99769 trillion, increasing by 8.6 percent year on year, according to the figures released by China's General Administration of Customs. In ...
Tags: Mineral, external trade
According to data of ACEA, in May this year, commercial vehicle sales in Europe dropped by 7.4%, when the number raised in April by 3.6%. The number of commercial vehicle registered in June is 135587 units. Spain remains stable, whereas ...
Tags: Commercial Vehicle, Transportation
Some vintners in Italy last week may have stopped stomping grapes and frantically opened their Chinese dictionaries. The vineyards in the EU's wine-producing regions have 10 days to get the language down pat, so they can respond to a trade ...
Tags: China Probe, EU Wineries
Greater collaboration between the established electricity networks sector and the blossoming solar power industry is essential for overcoming barriers to increasing the contribution of solar power to the UK electricity supply. This is the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Many listed Chinese solar companies experienced a turnaround in the first half, even as the industry remained mired in near-depression amid a supply glut and trade disputes. Of 22 listed companies, 10 have released interim statements ...
Tags: solar companies, EU duties
Novartis has received an approval from the European Commission for its Lucentis (ranibizumab) to treat patients with visual impairment due to choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to pathologic myopia (myopic CNV). Lucentis is a ...
The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) has granted market access to Cell Therapeutics for the medicinal product, Pixuvri (pixantrone), a novel aza-anthracenedione with structural and physiochemical properties Pixuvri has been approved as a ...
The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Chinese have been using the green and leafy andrographis paniculata to treat inflammation, fever and pain for decades, with its cultivation dating back to at least the 1950s in the southern province of Guangdong. The plant, better known ...
Tags: Chinese Medicine, Medicine
Cyber criminals could face tougher penalties across the European Union under new rules adopted by the European Parliament, which include the creation of a specific offence of using botnets. The draft directive adopted by the parliament on ...
Tags: EU Parliament, Cyber Attacks
Croatia, a country in Central Europe, could witness trigger in its textile and clothing investments as it is planning to utilize the financial and industrial development assistance by the EU to strengthen its manufacturing sector, including ...
Tags: Croatian Textiles
EU Trade Commissioner Karl De Gucht will be hosting a meeting in Geneva entitled "Staying Engaged – A Sustainability Compact with Bangladesh" on July 8, 2013. The high level discussion will focus on agreeing on ways for ...
Tags: Apparel