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ICC CASES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MASSACRES in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) civil war and the murky business dealings that have fuelled the conflict are to be the first focus of the International Criminal Court (ICC), its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said.…
IRELAND - ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government’s alleged failure to adequately implement a directive giving lawyers the right to easily register and work in Ireland has led the European Commission to threaten the levying of potentially enormous daily recurring fines.
Brussels has sent Dublin a legal final warning letter that tells it to quickly comply with a European Court of Justice ruling of last December that it should transpose directive 98/5/EC on the establishment of lawyers onto its statute book.…
GM FOOD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’s proposed regulation on the assessment of GM foods and authorisation procedures for their sale on European markets has been formally approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. Another regulation on the traceability and labelling of GM organisms and food has also been approved.…
GM CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Austria and Finland to the European Court of Justice for failing to adopt an older (and looser) directive on GM food. This includes rules on post-marketing monitoring, public information, plus labelling and traceability.…
CODEX DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards organisation Codex Alimentarius has set new guidelines for food irradiation, accepting higher levels that it previously recommended to eliminate bacteria. It also approved general principles on the analysis and management of risks related to biotechnological foods, including pre-market safety evaluations, product tracing for recalls and post-market monitoring.…
APPLE DISPUTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA has won a disputes hearing at the WTO, with a panel ruling that Japan’s quarantine measures on imported American apples cannot be justified on health grounds under the rules of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.…
LIVE EXPORTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed an overhaul of animal transport rules in the EU. Its tabled regulation allots responsibilities among those involved in live exports and insists on checks, for instance via tachographs. It also introduces stricter rules for nine-hour plus journeys, including domestic transport.…
FAO - COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the European Commission have agreed to create a “closer strategic partnership” regarding development and humanitarian aid.…
HENS - ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Austria, Belgium, Greece and Italy to the European Court of Justice over their alleged failure to implement a 1999 directive on minimum welfare standards for laying hens.…
FISH FARMING COMPENSATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farms that have to slaughter their whole stock because of disease are not automatically entitled to compensation under EU law, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It said a complete cull was not an illegal attack on the property rights, even though it would be mandatory under EU legislation.…