amfori is proud to announce that our Women’s Empowerment Programme has been officially launched with many activities underway.

 

The Women’s Empowerment Programme aims to create an enabling workplace environment for women and men and drive long-term social performance improvements for amfori members and their producers. 

 

Its benefits include access to:

An English Court has determined that the contested supplementary protection certificate (SPC) on Truvada® held by Gilead is invalid by applying the criteria laid down by a recent referral to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). Mr Justice Arnold held that Gilead’s SPC failed the CJEU’s test as Gilead’s basic patent on which the SPC was based did not describe the combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine and did not specifically identify emtricitabine.

 

At the end of their visit to Turkey in the frame of the European Parliament delegation, S&D MEPs Soraya Post and Wajid Khan acknowledged the work and efforts that Turkey is doing with regards to the integration of refugees. However, they insisted that much more effort is needed particularly in improving the human rights and the rule of law situation in Turkey.

 

Today, the College of Commissioners announced the closure of its investigation into McDonald's tax practices, which started in December 2015. The decision, put forward by the Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, states that that the non-taxation of certain McDonald's profits in Luxembourg do not constitute an illegal state aid.

 

S&D Group vice-president responsible for globalisation, Jeppe Kofod, said: