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NEW EU COMMISSIONERS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KEY European Commissioner for Europe’s fashion accessory and shoe industries over the next four years will be Germany’s Guenter Verheugen, the current commissioner for the enlargement of the European Union (EU). He was appointed to take office from November by incoming Commission president José Durão Barroso as enterprise and industry Commissioner, promoting manufacturing and business.…

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GM SEEDS



Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to consider new proposals for a lower maximum contamination of 0.3% genetically modified (GM) material for a cotton seed to be sold as non-GM. Commissioners have been unable to agree proposals for a 0.5% threshold.…

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MADE IN EUROPE



Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned its plan to introduce a Made in Europe label to boost European Union (EU) manufactured textile and clothing after consultations revealed opposition amongst some member states. Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, among others, were keen to retain their own national labels and there were concerns that a Made in Europe system would have proved expensive.…

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NEW COMMISSIONERS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KEY European Commissioner for Europe’s textile industry over the next four years will be Germany’s Guenter Verheugen, the current commissioner for the enlargement of the European Union (EU). He was appointed to take office from November by incoming Commission president José Durão Barroso as enterprise and industry Commissioner, promoting manufacturing and business.…

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WTO QUOTA TALKS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi has launched talks with member countries on maybe staging an emergency meeting of the WTO council for trade in goods on the oncoming abolition of textiles and clothing quotas. He has been consulting on this idea, proposed by Mauritius, Bangladesh and Nepal, which want the council to examine the costs of adjusting to a global quota-free regime from January, under the WTO’s agreement on textiles and clothing.…

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WTO ATC REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BLOW to smaller developing countries far from key American and European markets from the abolition of protective quotas in January could be cushioned by the continuing use of preferential tariffs, a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report has predicted.…

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DOHA FRAMEWORK DEAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
COTTON production will be a future key focus of the ongoing World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round, member countries have agreed in Geneva. A half-time ‘framework’ agreement commits developed countries slashing at least 20% from all “trade distorting support” for agriculture (which includes cotton growing), including schemes limiting production.…

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TAJIKSTAN DEAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has provisionally agreed to help the central Asian republic of Tajikstan improve its safe handling of nuclear materials in a wide-ranging cooperation deal. The Tajik government also promised to reform its nuclear and radioactive material legislation so it reflects that in force in the EU.…

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SALT BURIAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released results from a research project examining the burial of radioactive waste in rock salt. The Bambus II project examined the design and construction of chambers, considering the effectiveness of materials in securing waste, including surrounding rock, the crushed salt and container metals.…

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US FUSION



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Department of Energy (DoE) “is set to cancel work” on its six-year-old FIRE (fusion ignition research experiment), the European Commission is predicting. Its research directorate general was convinced by Anne Davies – DoE fusion energy office director – branding FIRE’s copper magnets “dead end technology”.…

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