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EEA REPORT
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has reached a negative conclusion about the environmental impact of aquaculture in European Union (EU) lakes and seas, saying that the “dramatic increase” in the size of the industry since 1970 had created “an increased pressure on water and ecological quality in those waters affected.”…
FOREIGN TRADE CORPORATION DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is consulting the EU fishing industry over a list of exported American marine products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent. The plan follows a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…
PORTUGAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler is fighting opposition within Portugal to his proposals to introduce multi-annual catch quotas. In a speech, he said: “If bacalhau is to remain on Portuguese menus we have to protect cod stocks from collapse now.…
SARDINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PERUVIAN fishermen will almost certainly now be allowed to market their sardine catches in the European Union as sardines, after the appellate body of the World Trade Organisation rejected an EU appeal against an earlier WTO ruling backing Peru’s case.…
ALIEN SPECIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to tighten rules on ballast management for international shipping to prevent the transport and release of alien species that can deplete the stocks of native species through natural competition.
In a broad strategy to boost the marine environment, Brussels warned that Baltic fisheries were particularly vulnerable to the introduction of alien species, given the sea’s low natural biodiversity.…
FOREIGN TRADE CORPORATION DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is consulting the EU fishing industry over a list of exported American marine products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent. The plan follows a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…
PORTUGAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler is fighting opposition within Portugal to his proposals to introduce multi-annual catch quotas. In a speech, he said: “If bacalhau is to remain on Portuguese menus we have to protect cod stocks from collapse now.…
SARDINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PERUVIAN fishermen will almost certainly now be allowed to market their sardine catches in the European Union as sardines, after the appellate body of the World Trade Organisation rejected an EU appeal against an earlier WTO ruling backing Peru’s case.…
ALIEN SPECIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to tighten rules on ballast management for international shipping to prevent the transport and release of alien species that can deplete the stocks of native species through natural competition.
In a broad strategy to boost the marine environment, Brussels warned that Baltic fisheries were particularly vulnerable to the introduction of alien species, given the sea’s low natural biodiversity.…
CHILE WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTEMPT by Chile to maintain domestic sugar prices by using variable import duties has been declared contrary to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules by the appellate body of the WTO disputes procedure. Chile’s price band system was challenged at the WTO by Argentina, with the support of both the US and the EU.…