Category Europe

Card Payments and Transaction Fees

The European Parliament have voted in favour of reforming payments within the European Union including Card payments and transaction fees.  The new measures include caps on credit and debit card fees on both cross-border and domestic transactions.  There is more…

Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations SI 2013/2952

These regulations enforce the EC regulation 1069/2009 (European Commission) relating to health rules for animal by-products, repealing EC 1774 They revoke the following previous regulations SI (Statutory Instrument) 1995/614 and 2011 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2952/contents/made?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Environment+Agency&utm_campaign=3690313_February+2014&dm_i=2WX,273GP,BJ9KL4,7Y7DS,0

Packaging Directive – Changes Oct 13

Source: Environment Agency, National Packaging Waste Database, http://npwd.environment-agency.gov.uk/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Environment+Agency&utm_campaign=3153895_October+-+issue+23&utm_content=Packaging&dm_i=2WX,1VLK7,BJ9KL4,6RQGJ,1 DEFRA have requested that the below information note is made available via NPWD. This information note outlines changes to the Packaging Directive on the scope of what is considered to be regarded as packaging.…