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UNECE RULES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe has drawn up a set of standard meat cuts for sheepmeat sold in Europe and approved quality control guidelines on importing pineapples from west Africa to Europe.…
COD MORATORIUM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is exploring alternative conservation methods to protect EU cod after the independent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea recommended closing some EU cod fisheries to prevent stocks collapsing.…
WHEAT AND BARLEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE US and Canada have struck a deal with Brussels over the opening of a low rate EU import quota for medium and low quality wheat and barley. From January 1, a general Euro 12 per tonne quota of 2.981 million tonnes will be opened for the wheat, with 38,000 tonnes earmarked for Canada and 572,000 tonnes for the US.…
MOROCCO TOMATOES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a deal with Morocco allowing it to import around 168,000 tonnes of tomatoes into the EU until next May.…
AUSTRALIA - WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is joining talks at the WTO about a dispute between Australia and the Philippines over quarantine restrictions imposed by Canberra on imports of fresh fruit and vegetables, especially banana and pineapples.…
CLEMENTINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has lifted a ban it imposed last December last year on imports of Spanish clementines because cargoes had been infected with fruit flies.…
PACK SIZES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCOTCH Whisky Association has said that it will resist moves by the European Commission to liberalise Europe’s bottle size rules, claiming that re-establishing a free-for-all would not help consumers.
Spokesman Campbell Evans was speaking about the formal consultation that Brussels is staging until January 30 over its conclusion that EU rules on packaging sizes could be too restrictive, especially regarding small sizes.…
GRAIN BRANDY CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a formal investigation into whether Germany’s spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, (Kornbranntwein), involves the payment of illegal state subsidies. The Commission wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…
HEINEKEN-CARLSBERG CASE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has – somewhat grudgingly it appears – called off its investigation into alleged market sharing agreements between the large international brewers Carlsberg of Denmark and Heineken of the Netherlands. Brussels said it found no evidence that the suspected infringement continued after May 1995 and noted that under EU rules it had no power to fine companies where abuses could not be proved in the five years preceding the start of an investigation – in this case 2000.…
CLAY ECO DISASTER
BY SWNINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lankan press reports have claimed that clay mining in the country’s Lower Ma Oya Valley has been carried out so recklessly that the local river has burst its banks and has invaded villages in the valley.…