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PORTUGAL EMBARGO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMBARGO on Portugal exporting beef and cattle to the rest of the European Union (EU) will be lifted, after the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health agreed the country had sufficiently improved its anti-BSE controls.…
BSE TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has designed a field trial for a proposed rapid BSE detection test for live animals, that could – if approved – significantly reduce the amount of culling (and associated supply and price problems) following an outbreak.…
BULGARIA - EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved granting Bulgaria immediate duty free access to the EU market for a range of meat products from this year onwards. These include animal fats and oils, meat-stuffed pasta and broths.…
SWITZERLAND - EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of livestock products will be sold duty-free between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland under an updated free trade agreement. These include (processed and unprocessed) animal fats and oils, pigs’ bristles, poultry skin and horsehair. The initial deal was struck in 1972 and was renegotiated over the past three years.…
SAFETY SEMINAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN and European Union (EU) officials are trying to devise a common approach to implementing Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points food safety principles. Both sides staged a technical seminar in Ireland last week (Sept 16-17) at the EU Food and Veterinary Office (FVO).…
BIRD FLU LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUSPENSION of chicken product imports into the European Union (EU) of chicken products and birds from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, China, South Korea and Vietnam will remain until March 31, 2005. The extension, (from December), of the bird flu ban was confirmed by the EU’s Standing Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health.…
ESTONIA DUTY
BY ALAN OSBORN
ESTONIA’S prime minister Juhan Parts said his government would not boost a planned 20% hike in strong alcohol duty rates, despite pressure from neighbouring Finland. Visiting Helsinki, Mr Parts heard arguments that next year’s planned tax change would do little to halt the boom in personal alcohol imports to Finland since Estonia joined the EU in May.…
BOEL/UDRE QUESTIONNAIRES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s campaign against restrictions on personal alcohol imports between European Union (EU) member states may intensify after a new taxation Commissioner takes office in November. Answering a European Parliament questionnaire, Latvia’s Ingrida Udre promised a strong line, stressing that “systematic controls” on private travellers importing wine, beer and spirits from foreign member countries “are incompatible” with EU treaty rules.…
RUSSIA DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A THREATENED renewed ban on EU animal product exports to Russia has been averted. Russia has accepted the EU’s principle of regional controls, where the European Commission can restrict the sale of products affected by disease to a limited area of EU countries.…
BRAZIL TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics.…