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BY PHILIP FINE

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating

inspection rules for pharmaceutical products in an effort to improve the

safety and efficiency of production and restore consumer and manufacturer

confidence in the agency.

The planned revision of the current "good manufacturing practice

Program" comes in the wake of several recent incidents that have shaken

confidence in

drugs manufacture in the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ERECTION of EU temporary protective duties on cereals from Russia and the Ukraine is being considered by the European Commission. A production boom is lowering prices on world markets, threatening the financial health of EU producers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NEW worries about the health and safety of teleworkers, homeworkers and others on short-term contracts are expressed in two new studies by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. It says they not only lack the protection of national occupational health and safety (OSH) regulations but may also suffer from “an increased sense of

job insecurity, often associated with work-related stress and its potential human and economic costs.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed new tougher animal health regulations for live exports, which would insist on high standards of cleanliness at staging posts created to rest livestock in transit. The new rules – which must be approved by European Union ministers to take effect – would tell staging post managers to “clean and disinfect” the areas within 24 hours of a visit by transported animals.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
EASTERN European countries that built nuclear power plants while under the communist system never thought they would face deadlines for closing them down as a prerequisite for joining the European Union. Neither had they built in the next stage – decommissioning – into the prices charged for electricity in the way that the western European nuclear plant operators had done from the start.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a case at the European Court of Justice against the British government, which is claims has failed to abide by European Union laws on environmental impact assessments for studies carried out on water management and green-field development projects.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is developing standard models for the following-up of divestiture commitments and trustee mandates in merger cases where companies promise to sell interests to get a deal cleared by Brussels competition authorities.

The Commission said that the use of the models, which are based on the 12 years of experience since the EU’s merger regulation was first implemented, would relieve merging companies and its officials of heavy administrative demands during the so-called remedies stage in merger review procedures, where the timing of sell-offs is crucial.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STAY of execution has been granted to American clothing exporters, after the European Union Council of Ministers decided it would postpone the implementation of a first round of protective duties, erected in retaliation to the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel.…

Keith Nuthall
THE TEXTILE sector was a copybook blot in an otherwise positive report on open markets and liberalisation in the European Union, released recently by the World Trade Organisation. It concluded: “Pursuing trade liberalisation through multilateral, regional and bilateral initiatives, the European Union has maintained its markets largely open, except for textiles and agriculture.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its Member States will have to improve their efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases if they want to meet their targets under the Kyoto Protocol, a European Environment Agency report has claimed. The EU is committed to cutting its combined emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to an average of eight per cent below 1990 levels in 2008 -2012.…