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BEEF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCIENTIFIC Steering Committee of the European Union has advised the European Commission that cattle aged over one year bear a low risk of BSE infection provided existing feed bans continue to be properly enforced. The advice opens the way to loosen the EU’s insistence on the removal of vertebrae from these older cattle.…
SALMONELLA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AMERICAN inspections system has substantially decreased the incidences of salmonella in raw meat and poultry, according to data released last month (April, 2002) by the US Department of Agriculture. The Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (PR/HACCP) system since 1998 has required establishments to develop a plan to prevent hazards and reduce pathogens in products.…
TURKISH LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is investing US$10 million in Turkish tiles manufacturer Eczazibasi Karo Seramik A.S (EKS) to help the company overcome working capital shortages, improve production efficiency, and boost exports. The is part of the corporation’s ongoing support for Turkey’s private sector following last year’s financial crises, which restricted the flow of international capital.…
MINING SOCIETE ANONYME
BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commission has cleared a deal through which the French Société Anonyme d’Explosifs et de Produits Chimiques (EPC) will acquire a 50% stake in the German drilling and blasting company SAARMontan, a wholly- subsidiary of Deutsche Montan Technologie.…
CHINA COKE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties erected against Chinese imports of coke, (with a diameter of 80 millimetres or more), under the authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, are to be preserved once this EU institution disappears on July 24.…
ECSC COMPETITION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL guidance has been issued by the European Commission to mining groups on the application of European competition law to their sector, after the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community on July 23. In particular, Brussels has said that it will not initiate anti-trust proceedings against coal companies taking part in cooperation agreements that had been formerly approved under the ECSC regime, and which might be suspect under general EU competition regulations that will take their place.…
ECSC STATISTICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECLINE in the European Union’s use and production of coal over the past 50 years has been documented in a detailed paper by EU statistical agency Eurostat to mark the end of the European Coal and Steel Community.…
EFTA V EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area has told the European Union that it is “deeply disturbed” by not being “exempted from the European Commission’s measures to restrict steel imports.” The Chairman of EFTA’s Standing Committee, Ambassador Gunnar Snorri Gunnarsson (CORRECT NAME) claimed at an EU-EFTA meeting that the EU had erred by failing to exempt EFTA states, (Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein), from its safeguard regime, designed to stop EU markets from being flooded with steel normally sold in the US.…
NUCLEAR SCRAP
BY DEIRDRE MASON
SOME 12 million tonnes of scrap metal – mainly steel – are expected to enter global markets this decade as redundant nuclear power stations are closed down worldwide; in Europe, there is likely to be a surge from 2003 onwards, via a closure programme for obsolete plants in the eastern European countries applying to join the EU.…
ROMANIA DOUBLE CHECK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has voted to extend the double-checking system for exports of certain steel products from Romania to the EU, from July 1 until December 31. The system will be re-introduced without quantitative limits.…