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BEEF HORMONES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission may have to wait for the US and Canada to lift retaliatory duties imposed over the European Union’s hormone-treated meat ban after EU ministers agreed legislation on the subject. An unnamed US official dismissed EU claims the law fulfilled WTO demands for its ban to be based on risk assessments, claiming that the law’s scientific foundation did not confirm any health threats.…
LIBYA - LOCKERBIE
Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and Britain have formally withdrawn two cases brought against Libya at the International Court of Justice over its liability under the Montreal Convention because of its role in the Lockerbie disaster. The move follows Libya’s offer of compensation to victims’ families.…
BOLKESTEIN THREAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has started to get tough with the United States over the ongoing controversy regarding the use by Washington of air passenger data handed over by European Union airlines. Internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein said in a speech to the European Parliament justice and home affairs committee in Brussels: “We cannot let this process go on indefinitely.…
EU WORKPLACE PRIVACY REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S decision to use non-binding guidelines for advising employers and employees on their respective rights regarding the workplace monitoring and privacy of e mails and Internet use has been criticised by a report by a specialist European Union employment affairs body.…
CANADA - EU CLAIM
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has welcomed what it says is the imminent ratification of the United Nations Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks by the European Union, which should help Ottawa conserve its hard-pressed fishing reserves.…
ITALY EMERGENCY AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRECISE guidance about the legality under European law of government intervention to make good damage caused by natural disasters is likely to emerge from a new European Commission state aid inquiry in Italy. Brussels fears that an Italian law, giving benefits to private investors pumping money into disaster zones, may fall foul of EU state aid legislation designed to prevent national governments giving their local businesses unfair advantages over those from other Member States.…
GM SEEDS DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RULES determining when certain seeds sold by garden centres should be labelled as containing genetically modified material have been proposed by the European Commission and are being examined by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on seeds, which has the authority to approve or reject the proposal.…
FMD LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED rules guiding European Union (EU) countries on handling future outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) have been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. Under pre-existing European legislation, member countries were not encouraged to use vaccination as a front-line response to FMD, and the movement of vaccinated animals were banned for a year.…
FMD LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED rules guiding European Union (EU) member countries on how to handle future outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) have been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. Under pre-existing European legislation that discouraged emergency vaccination and banned it as an advance protective measure, restrictions on vaccinated animals were banned for 12 months.…
RUSSIA COUNTERFEITS
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN counterfeit goods manufacturers, who have traditionally regarded clothes and textile goods as prime and lucrative targets, have seen a six-fold fall in the number of goods they sell. The country’s State Customs Committee says Russia lost US$600 million last year in the sale of fake goods of all kinds, compared with US$1 billion in 1999.…