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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned that world cotton prices are likely to be depressed should the US Congress approve the US Farm Bill as currently framed. The law will increase subsidies to American growers, boosting flat rate payments, loans guaranteeing farmers a fixed price for their crop and grants providing farms with an overall minimum income.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne has unveiled food industry proposals that the European Commission will make later this year. They include regulations on nutritional, functional and health claims made on packaging, updating rules on food contact materials for new types of packaging, non-GM reforms to the EU novel food regulation and amendments to EU legislation on food additives and sweeteners.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world’s poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL that biofuels should be made exempt from excise duty within the European Union has been made in Brussels. The idea has been suggested by the Committee of the Regions, which represents powerful sub-national administrations, such as those for Scotland, Wales, Catalonia and Bavaria.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson & Hedges Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the Saskatchewan provincial government, arguing that the province’s recent Tobacco Control Act, which bans the display in shops of tobacco products, is unconstitutional under Canadian federal law.

The case filed in the prairie province’s Court of Queen’s Bench, claims that the legislation that came into effect on March 11, 2002, violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and federal tobacco legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU geographical designations rules protecting brands such as Parma ham and Gran Padano cheese do not insist that such products should be grated, sliced or packaged in the region where they are made, a European Court of Justice judge has recommended.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THOUSANDS of tonnes of mildly radioactive steel could come onto the European market because of pressure on countries waiting to join the European Union to dismantle their decrepit Russian-built nuclear power stations. Aware of the need to assuage public distrust of even the lowest levels of radioactivity, the European Union’s Joint Research Centre is investigating the levels of radiation likely to be involved in this steel, taken from buildings that do not house the reactor itself.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROLAND Schenkel, the German former director of the European Union’s Joint Research Centre’s Karlsruhe institute has been appointed the organisation’s Deputy Director-General with special responsibility for nuclear studies and decommissioning.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has sought to counteract criticism that the EU is failing to sufficiently help small cotton producers in Africa. In a public statement, he has highlighted the ongoing liberalisation of import quotas, notably the duty free access for cotton from the ACP (Africa, Carabbean and Pacific) countries that have close links with Brussels.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WITH the European Union’s Pounds 2.2 billion Galileo satellite navigation system being given the final go-ahead by government leaders after long arguments over its cost, the European Commission is taking pains to promote its future usefulness to the airline industry.…