Claim: EU suspends delivery of 10 million masks over quality issues.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Euro coins
text: their indiscriminate and long-term effects on civilians. The CCM prohibits the use, produce, retain or transfer cluster munitions as well as assistance with these acts. After parliamentary questions were posed, the Dutch government stated that the Royal Dutch Mint had ordered around 40 million 'coin blanks' between 2011 and 2016, and that Poongsan was on a list of vetted suppliers of the European Commission's Mint Directors Working Group. Since then, both the Royal Dutch Mint and the Norwegian Mint have excluded Poongsan as a coin blank supplier due to its involvement in cluster munitions. In the European Parliament, questions were

title: Government procurement in the European Union
text: states who had failed to notify the Commission of their transposition of one or more of the three new directives into their national law by the due date. The Commission's letter of formal notice was sent to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Spain and Sweden. The European Commission estimates that the elimination of trade barriers resulting from discriminatory and preferential procurement practices may bring about savings to the European economy of about 0.5% of EU GDP, which would be about USD 92 billion

title: Gas mask
text: Kurd. Iran was unprepared for chemical warfare. In 1984, Iran received gas masks from the Republic of Korea and East Germany, but the Korean masks were not suited for the faces of non-East Asian people and the filter only lasted for 15 minutes, and the 5,000 masks bought from East Germany proved to be not gas masks but spray painting goggles. As late as 1986, Iranian diplomats still traveled in Europe to buy active charcoal and models of filters in order to produce defensive gear domestically. In April 1988, Iran started domestic production of gas masks by the Iran Yasa

title: 2013 Southeast Asian haze
text: masks to constituencies and the remaining 3 million to retailers. The Manpower Ministry refrained from issuing a stop-work order, saying that the Government would do so only if the haze worsened severely. On 22 June 2013, the haze started giving way to clear skies as the PSI dropped from 326 at 10am in the "Hazardous" range to 73 at 5pm in the "Moderate" range. The next day, the improvement was sustained in the morning, with the PSI in the "Moderate" range. The improvement in the air quality was due to a change in the direction of the low level winds

title: Basic (cigarette)
text: also were or still are sold in Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Czech Republic, Hong Kong and Japan. In May 1995, it was reported that a $100 million recall involving more than eight billion filtered cigarettes, including its Marlboro, Virginia Slims and Benson & Hedges brands. The company said manufacturing defects in filters could cause smokers ""temporary discomfort"" from an irritant similar to a commercial pesticide. Since there was no way to identify the defective cigarettes by scrutinizing their boxes or cartons, the company asked all smokers of 36 of its product lines to return them to retailers immediately

title: Effects of the April 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption
text: ban, with later figures suggesting 107,000 flights cancelled during an 8-day period, accounting for 48% of total air traffic and roughly 10 million passengers. Following Air France-KLM's and British Airways' requests to the European Union, and additionally in the latter's case to the British government, for compensation, Gordon Brown announced that the EU Solidarity fund, designed to aid EU member states in the event of large-scale disasters, could be a possible source of compensation. The EU's competition commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, also said the EU was considering easing its rules on governmental subsidies to airlines. Late in April 2010, EU Transport

title: Operation N
text: that breaking it could result in injury or death. Later that year a notice informed Germans that gas-masks would be distributed on some days of the week only because of an insufficient supply of masks. It caused chaos and panic among the addressees of the message. On 30 April 1942 a false order was sent out to 209 factories under German administration, ordering that all workers be granted a fully paid day off work, due to the celebration of the day the NSDAP came to power. In February 1944 a false order was issued specifying the sequence of evacuation of

title: Extreme ultraviolet lithography
text: into the EUV mask layers. Once trapped, bulge defects were produced. These defects arise after a sufficient number of EUV mask exposures in the hydrogen environment. The resolution of EUV lithography for the future faces challenges in maintaining throughput, i.e., how many wafers are processed by an EUV tool per day. These challenges arise from smaller fields, additional mirrors, and shot noise. In order to maintain throughput, the power at intermediate focus (IF) must be continually increased. Preparation of an anamorphic lens with an NA between 0.5 and 0.6 is underway as of 2016. The demagnification will be 8X in

title: European Anti-Fraud Office
text: world's four largest tobacco manufacturers. The companies agreed to pay a collective total of $2.15 billion to the EU and Member States. With the agreements, the manufacturers have also committed themselves to comprehensive rules concerning sales and distribution practices to promote compliance with EU and national rules as well as to ensure that their genuine cigarettes are sold, distributed, stored and shipped in accordance with all legal requirements. While OLAF is a largely successful organisation, it is not without faults and challenges. Most notably is how reliant it is on the cooperation of European Member States. OLAF is not a

title: EC Regulation 1223/2009 on cosmetics
text: has now updated the regulation to prohibit the use of these three fragrance allergens. This Regulation enter into force from August 23, 2017. TIMELINE for Compliance: · From August 23, 2019, only cosmetic products which comply with the Regulation shall be Placed on the European Union market. · From August 23, 2021, only cosmetic products which comply with the Regulation shall be made available on the European Union market. SOURCE of Information: EC Regulation 1223/2009<ref name="EC-1223/2009"></ref> was created by the European Parliament and Council with the intent of establishing standards for cosmetic products that are available on the market. Compliance

title: Law of France
text: then-Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs Franco Frattini - it insisted that the principle created in this decision applied to all policies, not just pollution policy. In May 2006, the Commission formally submitted to the EU Parliament and EU Council (which have co-decision powers) the first draft directive aiming to put this into effect. The draft concerns counterfeiting (for example, of car parts, drugs, or children's toys) and requires each member state to set the following penalties for what it terms "organised counterfeiters": a period of imprisonment of up to four years and a fine of up to €300,000. The

title: Volkswagen emissions scandal
text: said that 700,000 of its diesel models were affected. In Europe alone, a total of 8 million vehicles are affected. In Germany, 2.8 million vehicles will have to be recalled, followed by the UK, with 1.2 million. In France, 984,064 vehicles were affected, in Austria around 360,000, while in the Czech Republic 148,000 vehicles were involved (of which 101,000 were Škodas). In Portugal, VW said it had sold 94,400 vehicles with the software.<ref name="spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/volkswagen-aufsichtsrat-sucht-die-schuldigen-a-1055543.html_2015-10-01"></ref> The repair may not require a formal recall; in the UK, for example, the company will simply offer to repair the cars free of charge; a

title: Cosmetic packaging
text: serious undesirable effects (SUE) to the EU. Marketers are required to list nano-materials. The EU's definition of "ingredients" does not include raw or technical materials used in production that do not end up in the final product. In some cases when durability is an issue, the manufacturer must list an expiration date after the product has been opened. The words "best used before" are common for identifying the product expiration date. Standard ISO 22715 provides specifications for the packaging and labeling of all cosmetic products that are sold or distributed at no charge; i.e. free samples. National regulations dictate what

title: 2008 Irish pork crisis
text: slaughter of pigs until they received financial compensation. Pork supplies to a total of twenty-three countries was affected, thirteen within the European Union and the remainder outside in an area across at least three continents. Countries affected include: Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Estonia, the UK, France, Portugal, Cyprus, Romania, Russia, the United States, Canada, Switzerland, China, South Korea, Japan and Republic of Singapore. It is now suspected that the oil that contaminated the offending pig feed with dioxins came from County Tyrone. Some reports suggest the recovery of the Irish pork market will take up to

title: David Packouz
text: secured in Albania to fulfill the contract had originally come from China, violating the terms of AEY's contract with the US Army, banning Chinese ammunition. AEY had failed to perform on numerous previous contracts, including sending potentially unsafe helmets and failure to deliver 10,000 Beretta pistols to Iraq. During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation documents were produced to show that federal agencies terminated, withdrew, or canceled at least seven previous contracts with AEY for poor quality or late deliveries. Packouz responded by email to his associates that they had to get rid of the crates with the

title: Extreme ultraviolet lithography
text: be discontinued by 2017, to be replaced by the NXE:3400B. At the time of shipping of the first NXE:3400B, eight NXE:3300B and six NXE:3350B systems were up and working in the field. A total of ten NXE3400B systems were shipped in 2017. In Q1 2018, three EUV systems were shipped. IN Q2 2018, 4 more were shipped. In H2 2018, TSMC confirmed that its 5nm EUV scheme still used multi-patterning, also indicating that mask count did not decrease from its 7nm node, which used extensive DUV multi-patterning, to its 5nm node, which used extensive EUV. EDA vendors also indicated the

title: Respirator assigned protection factors
text: of negative pressure full face masks with high-efficiency filters in the laboratory revealed a risk of decrease in protective properties to a small values. Therefore, the use of such respirators has been limited to the values 50 or 100 PEL in the United States. However, the experts in the UK believed that the quality of their masks is higher than American masks, and were allowed to use up to 900 OEL. But the study showed that the value of the protection factor of > 900 has been achieved in practice infrequently. Minimum protection factors of 3 different models of full

title: EC Regulation 1223/2009 on cosmetics
text: Corrective actions may include withdrawing the product from the market or initiating product recalls. Another responsibility of the responsible person is that they must maintain a product information file for each cosmetic product that is put on the market by his or her company under Article 11 of EC 1223/2009. This file must remain accessible by the public and government for at least 10 years after the last batch of the product was placed on the market. The product information file at minimum must contain information and data regarding the description of the cosmetic product, safety reports regarding the product,

title: Great Greenland Furhouse
text: 2009, the European Parliament voted in favour of an EU-wide ban on seal products, exemptions allowing limited seal product trade for Greenland Inuit. The majority of the fur products are headed for the European markets, with Denmark as the biggest customer. Since the EEC seal skin ban in 1983, the company receives between 25 and 30 million DKK (3.5 to 4 mil EUR) annually to support and develop Greenlandic seal hunt and production. There are currently 1,900 licensed professional hunters on Greenland, of these an estimated 200 to 300 are economically dependent on supplying seal skins to Great Greenland. On

title: Pharmaceutical Affairs Law (Taiwan)
text: ingredients clearly or at all, while 22 gave an incorrect authorisation number or none at all. A 2009 survey, also by the Consumers' Foundation, looked at 41 face masks (17 N95 masks and 24 surgical masks), and found that 90% did not meet the labelling and packaging requirements. Sellers of drugs and medical devices are required by article 27 of the PAL to obtain a license from the Ministry of Health. Furthermore, article 37 requires that sales of all drugs, though not of medical devices, be carried out by a licensed pharmacist (or assistant pharmacist, in the case of non-narcotic