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FISH CHECKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU fishing businesses handling big-eye tuna and swordfish will have to declare their imports, exports and re-exports of the species, in the same way that an existing law forces them to release similar statistics about bluefin tuna. The aim is to boost conservation.…
DESIGNATION SITE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS for food products to be designated by the EU as a Protected Designation of Origin, a Protected Geographical Indication or a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed can now be consulted on a Brussels website: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/foodqual/protec/firstpub/index_en.htm…
PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled programmes promoting food sales within the EU. Products concerned include fruit and vegetables, cheeses and milk products, plus general campaigns on organically produced food. They will be 50 per cent co-financed by the Commission, which will spend Euro 32.1 million, generally over three years.…
FAO PREDICTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries will become increasingly dependent on cereal, meat and milk imports by the year 2030, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has claimed, which says they could be producing only 86 per cent of their own cereal needs, with net imports rising from103 million tonnes today to 265 million tonnes.…
JOBURG PLEDGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS attending the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg agreed to restore the world’s depleted fisheries by 2015.…
BYRNE SPEECH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION will be a focus of future EU policy for in the food sector EU health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has told EU ministers, especially in relation to food safety, traceability, food quality, new products and animal welfare.…
NORWAY ANTI-DUMPING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties on 10 Norwegian farmed salmon exporters who were previously exempt from the tariffs by promising to keep prices above a minimum level, backed by documentary proof.…
FOREIGN TRADE CORPORATION DUTIES
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American timber products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of 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.…
BAT ECJ CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been censured by the European Court of Justice for falsely denying the existence of minutes of a high-level Cancer Experts Committee, when they were requested by British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd. Only when BAT had launched legal action at the ECJ and a member of the committee gave written evidence that such minutes did exist, did the Commission supply the documents and some other relevant material.…
UK DUTY FREE
BY ALAN OSBORN
BRUSSELS is set to crack down on Britain’s handling of tobacco excise duty cases where travellers from other EU Member States are accused and sanctioned for allegedly violating the “personal consumption” limit. The European Commission says it has questions about “a presumption that the goods are being imported for commercial use and concerning the vehicle seizure policy being applied by customs officers.”…