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EU - WTO SUGAR CASE CLAIM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is opposing the launch of a WTO case by Brazil, Australia and Thailand against EU sugar subsidies, claiming a successful challenge would undermine trade preferences given to Europe’s sugar imports from poorer African, Pacific and Caribbean.…
CROATIA LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Croatia’s Zagrebacka Banka (ZABA) have created a risk-sharing loan facility for Croatian food processors, producers and traders totalling Euro 71.4 million.…
ARGENTINA - FMD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has declared northern Argentina (north of the 42° parallel) free from foot and mouth disease (FMD), albeit with the help of vaccination, backdated to July 7…
ICELAND - RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN fish products are imported into Europe, and processed, when can they be marketed as European fish products? The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has been asked to rule on whether the defrosting, heading, filleting, boning, trimming, salting and packing of fish imported frozen whole from outside the European Economic Area (the EU, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) creates a product under European law sufficiently different to be considered of European origin.…
CORN PEST CONTROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation experts will help central and eastern Europe to control ‘western corn rootworm’, a threat to corn production. This US$2.26 million project involves Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovakia.…
CROATIA TSE RULES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CROATIA is being challenged at the WTO by Hungary over its June ban on meat imports from any country permitting feed containing animal protein, and – in some circumstances – fish meal. Zagreb justifies its action to prevent BSE outbreaks, but Hungary says it is too extreme, breaking WTO health rules.…
EU RESEARCH MONEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its first Euro 166 million tranche of funding for food and food safety projects, via the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme on research. While not releasing individual budgets for successful projects, it highlighted funding a “key network of excellence” on prion diseases, including BSE.…
FISCHLER - IRELAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REDUCTIONS in support to Europe’s sometimes bloated dairy production industry should be handled efficiently in Ireland. EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler told an Irish farmers conference that Ireland already was “the lowest cost milk producer in Europe,” adding he was “confident (it) can diversify into fresh and value-added dairy products.”…
CANCUN ATTEMPTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
US and EU negotiators have been trying hard to broker a deal on agricultural liberalisation for the WTO’s September 10-14 summit, which is supposed to give impetus to the ongoing Doha development trade round.…
ANIMAL FOOD HYGEINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL agreement has been secured at the EU Council of Ministers over the proposed EU regulation boosting health controls on fresh meat, live bivalve molluscs, and milk and milk products.…