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On 29 June, the EU regulation on zero deforestation supply chains came into force. With the new rules, companies exporting or placing on the EU market palm oil, cattle, soya, coffee, cocoa, wood and rubber or products derived from it such as beef, furniture or chocolate shall demonstrate that such [...]

The State-Regions Conference has approved the draft decree of the Minister of Agriculture and the Ministry of Economy and Finance on " Criteria and methods of implementation of the Fund for innovation in agriculture ". The Fund, established by the 2023 Budget Law, aims to encourage the development of projects [...]

The National Institute for Social Security (INPS), with the message 20 July 2023, n. 2729, summarises the indications for the cases of suspension or reduction of the working activity consequent to the high temperatures and the recourse to the treatment of wage integration with the causal " weather events " [...]

The new Industrial Property Code is now law. The Chamber of Deputies finally approved the draft law amending the Industrial Property Code , a reform that is part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, under the competence of the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. The measure provides [...]

The European Commission has adopted an exceptional support package of 330 million euros to support agricultural businesses. Farmers in Italy , Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, and Sweden will have access to [...]

The Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy reopens Patents+, Designs+ and Trademarks+ , with a budget of 32 million euros, as provided by the Strategic Lines of action on industrial property for the three-year period, 2021-2023. Grants for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) break down as follows: 20 million [...]

The tourist season got off with a slow start in Northwest Sardinia. According to an analysis of Federalberghi-Confcommercio province of Sassari, in June there was a decrease of more than 6% of the room occupancy rate, going from 68.89% in June 2022 to 62.23% in June 2023. The analysis is [...]

The Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy has allocated further 175 million euros to support research and development projects carried out under Agreements for Innovation , presented at the second subsidised office and not admitted for lack of resources. The projects must be carried out entirely in the southern [...]

The European Commission has approved two Italian aid schemes, with a total budget of about 535 million euros, to support the labour costs of companies in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The schemes were approved under the Temporary Framework for State aid in the event of crisis and [...]

The new EU regulation on general product safety came into force today, 12 June 2023. The new rules aim to address the major social changes that have affected consumer product safety over the past 20 years, such as increasing digitisation, new technological developments, and globalised supply chains. This updated framework [...]