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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commissioner in charge of enlarging the European Union (EU) has called on Turkey to redouble its judicial reforms, as it approaches negotiations on becoming a member state. Speaking in Istanbul, Olli Rehn concluded Turkey’s legal reform process had “reached the point of no return”, but that much work was needed and that the speed of accession talks would depend on how quickly Turkey adopted European legal traditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has pumped more money into Turkey vehicle fleet management company Intercity. It will lend Intercity US$42.75 million, which follows the IFC’s purchase of 20% equity earlier this year. The latest loan, said the IFC, would “strengthen Intercity’s long-term leasing of its vehicle fleet to a variety of private sector enterprises”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has exempted Turkey’s Has Çelik ve Halat Sanayi Ticaret AS (CORRECT SPELLING) from paying 17.8% anti-dumping duties on its exports to the EU of certain iron or steel ropes and cables.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka is developing a research project to extract pure collagen hydrolysates from solid leather production wastes. The study currently has a Euro 1.8 million budget, which should grow over its four-year life, until 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFTA) has called for further research into whether using iodine in livestock feed could pose health problems to animals and meat consumers. Its FEEDAP Panel on animal feed additives and products is concerned iodine is also consumed through iodine-enriched salt and other food items, tablets, and iodine-enriched beverages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ADDITIONAL Protocol to the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Biomedical Research, has been opened for signature by the organisation’s 46 member states. It defines and protects fundamental rights of human biomedical research subjects, saying who can consent to taking part in experiments, and under what circumstances.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$8.9 million to Eurex Alimentare, of Turkey’s Ulker Group, to build a Romania factory producing Ulker biscuits and chocolate and US$4.25 to Ulker’s Hamle, of Kazakhstan, to modernise biscuit and chocolate production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has promised the Chinese government it will not ape Turkey in re-imposing quotas on China exports of clothing textiles, despite the supposed end to such restrictions on January 1. A spokeswoman for EU trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has told the state-owned China Daily the EU would not return to quotas, but was instead looking at possible temporary “safeguard” measures in case of an export glut to Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has agreed to acquire a minority stake in a growing Turkey fleet management company to help cement its transformation into a key player in the Turkish market. The IFC will invest in Intercity, which grew from a single person operation in 1992 to a company with 20% market share, 90 employees and 6,000 cars under management today.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-DIOXIN LIKE PCB CONTAMINATION WARNING – EFSA

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called on the food industry to further minimise non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) in food, because of health concerns about excess contamination. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/contam/contam_opinions/1229/contam_op_ej284_ndl-pcb_en1.pdf

ECJ SMOKED FLAVOURINGS CRISPS – BRITAIN APPEAL

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a British government attempt to strike down a EU regulation controlling smoke flavourings in foods.…