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SWEETENER
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked Eurpopean Union ministers to authorise in the EU a new intense sweetener used in soft drinks called sucralose. The EU Scientific Committee on Food has approved its safety and set an Acceptable Daily Intake of 15 mg/kg of bodyweight.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
Keith Nuthall
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading rules stating that instant coffee should generally be considered a product of the country where its coffee beans are grown, not where it is processed. The exception would be for blends where the dominant ingredient is less than 85 per cent of the whole, when the product would be considered from the country of manufacture.…
GUGGENHEIM WINERY
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE OWNERS of the Le Clos Jordan vineyard estate in Canada’s Niagara Peninsula have commissioned Canadian architect, Frank Gehry – known primarily for his unorthodox Guggenheim Museum, in Bilbao, Spain – to design plans for a new winery set on a 137 acre site.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that the drying of fish, fish livers, roes and fish fillets should legally be considered a product of the country where fish is processed, not where it was caught.…
FISHING NEWS
From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has proposed changes in fishing rules to
reflect recent international agreements, new scientific advice and a ruling
by the European Court of Justice. Brussels said the adjustments were to
strengthen the sustainability of the fisheries concerned and provide EU
fishermen with the opportunities available after the latest scientific
advice.…
SHIP SCRAPPING
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a special new budget item of Euro
32 million, (Pounds 20 million), in respect of the policy to reduce the EU’s fishing capacity by scrapping vessels, which should enable fleets to be downsized from next year, rather than in 2004, as previously discussed.…
FOREST FOCUS
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed he creation of a new Euro 13 million per annum scheme to monitor the health of Europe’s forests. Assuming it is approved by European Union ministers, the programme would initially run from January 2003 until December 2008.…
WORLD BANK - INDIA
KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is lending US$108.2 million to a project improving the management of tropical hardwood forests in Andhra Pradesh, India. This investment will be focused in 14 of the poorest districts of the state, covering 3.86 million hectares of forest.…
BELGIUM EXCIISE DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
Belgium may be charged in the European Court of Justice unless it changes its legislation on the imposition of tobacco excise duties within two months, the European Commission said today (Monday).
The complaint is over the Belgian practice of demanding payment of excise duties at the time a “fiscal mark” is issued and not when the products are released for consumption, as laid down in EU regulations.…
ONTARIO CLOSURE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE ONTARIO Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers’ Marketing Board has announced the Tillsonburg auction warehouse will close and that the 2001 tobacco crop and future crops, will be marketed exclusively through the nearby Delhi auction exchange.
The board said the reduction in crop size, due to anti-smoking policies and excessive taxation by both Canadian federal and provincial governments, made it uneconomical to operate both the Delhi and Tillsonburg exchanges.…