Exporting inexperienced hydrogen: India flags problem of single bidding zone in EU rules

Energy Secretary Pankaj Agarwal mentioned on Thursday that India in August 2024 raised the problem of single bidding zones within the European Union’s Renewable Power Directive (RED II). The problem pertains to the European Union’s (EU) RED II, which, together with the delegated act (DA), defines a technique for the supply of renewable electrical energy … Read more

India makes robust pitch on the WTO to guard its small-scale and artisanal fishers

India has made a robust pitch on the WTO for simpler carveouts for small-scale and artisanal fishers to guard their livelihood subsidies and has rejected the draft textual content circulated by the chair of the WTO negotiations on curbing overcapacity and overfishing (OCOF) subsidies arguing that the particular and differential therapy (SDT) provisions for its … Read more

India, EU fail to succeed in settlement on compensation for metal safeguard duties

India and the EU have failed to succeed in an settlement on equal stage of concessions and commerce compensation that the bloc might provide to New Delhi to mitigate the adversarial results of the extension of its safeguard duties on sure metal imports from the nation. New Delhi mentioned that it reserved its rights to … Read more

Govt calls key assembly on draft digital competitors legislation

A giant transfer is afoot on the EU-style digital competitors legislation into consideration, posing a problem to tech companies by laying out strict compliance obligations that may influence their enterprise mannequin. The Ministry of Electronics and Info Expertise (MeitY) has scheduled a vital assembly with business associations on Thursday to debate the draft Digital Competitors … Read more

Brazil, Canada, EU urge India to submit well timed notifications on sugar subsidies in WTO

A gaggle of WTO member international locations, together with Brazil, Canada and the European Union, have urged India to submit well timed notifications on sugar subsidies within the World Commerce Organisation, an official stated. Additionally learn:Choice on resumption of sugar exports is months away, Indian official says The problem got here up for dialogue in … Read more

Basmati rice GI tag: Benefit India as EU republishes Pakistan plea underneath a brand new clause

In a improvement that provides India the benefit to realize geographical indication (GI) tag for its basmati rice, the European Union (EU) has re-published Pakistan’s utility for such a tag for the aromatic rice underneath a brand new clause. The EU re-published Pakistan’s GI utility tag on April 30 underneath Article 49 (5) of regulation … Read more

EU eases Schengen visa guidelines for Indians permitting validity as much as 5 years

The EU has eased Schengen visa guidelines for Indians permitting frequent travellers multi-entry visa for a interval as much as 5 years.   “The EU takes one other step in direction of enhancing people-to-people contact with India. New Schengen visa regime provides Indian frequent travellers entry to multi-year visa (as much as 5 years.) Europe delivers … Read more

Consultants from EU, India to debate methods to fight disinformation on-line

Consultants from the EU and India will discover developments in using disinformation on-line and encourage EU and Indian governmental and non-governmental actors to match notes and share greatest practices about countering disinformation in a spherical desk meet later this week. This EU-India observe 1.5 occasion, ‘Combatting disinformation on-line: EU and Indian views’, will happen on … Read more

₹ cost impact: Engg exports to Russia rise 140% to $1 billion

Exports of engineering items from India to Russia is hovering, due to the rupee cost association. Within the April-November interval of the present 12 months, India’s engineering items exports to Russia rose 138 per cent to the touch $902.25 million, in contrast with $378.89 million within the corresponding interval of final 12 months, in accordance … Read more