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DUTCH CHICKEN FLU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the movement of live poultry and hatching eggs from the Netherlands to other European Union countries, following an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza amongst chickens in the eastern province of Gelderland.…
CODEX FUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A US$40 million trust fund has been launched by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Health Organisation to help developing countries frame and implement Codex Alimentarius international food trade standards. The ‘Project and Fund for Enhanced Participation in Codex’ should run for 12 years.…
US DUTIES LOWERED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has announced its first offer of reductions to food duties in its bid to create a 34-country Free Trade Area of the Americas pact. It plans to slash duties on 56 per cent of agricultural imports from north and south American countries by 2005 (ignoring those from Canada and Mexico) and expects reciprocal offers.…
PARAGUAY BEEF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has banned Paraguay beef imports, because of alleged problems over its control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks.…
GMO ACCESS ROW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES by European health Commissioner David Byrne to lift the EU’s five year de-facto moratorium on GM food have been blocked by Germany, France, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria. He said new authorisations should begin, because the EU Council of Ministers has approved labelling and traceability rules.…
FISH FARMING STATS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AQUACULTURE is growing more rapidly than other meat, fish or dairy sectors. Its contribution to global supplies of fish and seafood increased from 3.9 per cent to 29 per cent in 2001, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.…
CAP REFORM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPREHENSIVE proposals to reform the EU Common Agriculture Policy by moving towards direct payments to farmers, decoupled from production, have been tabled by the European Commission. The proposals would allow for substantial investment aid to be met by EU funds, which include 40 per cent of costs incurred by processing and marketing groups.…
EBRD GRAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$15 million to the Russian and Ukrainian subsidiaries of Dutch grain and oilseed trader Nidera Handelscompagnie, to boost primary production in the ex-USSR.…
MILK GENE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-FUNDED research project has discovered a gene that regulates the yield, protein and fat content of milk in cows. MTT Agrifood Research, Finland, and the University of Liège, Belgium, say isolating the gene will help Ayrshire, Holstein and Jersey breeders.…
EASTERN EUROPE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SOME eastern European countries applying for EU membership need to work harder to reform their food sectors, said a European Commission report. Slovakia, Slovenia and Latvia are highlighted as having won foreign investment though.…