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EUROSTAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE VALUE of cattle, pigmeat and milk production in Britain declined by 1.3 per cent in 2001, according to EU statistical agency Eurostat. By contrast, it increased in Germany by 5.3 per cent, Italy 3.4 per cent, France 1.8 per cent and Spain, as much as 9.8 per cent.…
EU ORGANICS ADD
BY ALAN OSBORN
Generally organic meat production in the EU is low, said, Jean-Luc Meriaux, general secretary of the European Livestock and Meat Trading Union. For instance, in the key sector of organic beef, “very little” is produced in the EU, he said.…
MCDONALDS
BY MATTHEW BRACE
MCDONALD’S has begun testing Australian beef in the previously all-American burgers it has supplied in its homeland. A shortage of cheap, lean beef has forced the company to mix Australian beef with US meat. The new multinational patties will trial in 400 outlets across the south-west US.…
PORK BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU’S Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved a European Commission plan to ban the export of all live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos from the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, except districts east of the Rhine.…
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHAPE of a draft European directive on controlling future foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks has been unveiled by EU health and consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne. Speaking to the European Parliament, he said that the legislation would reform rules on vaccination, boosting the use of new tests to make this treatment more effective and avoiding the “unnecessary slaughter and destruction of healthy animals.”…
SLOVAKIA/CZECH REPUBLIC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the management of European Union ‘SAPARD’ agricultural development funds by the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This means that meat producers in the two countries will benefit from annual grants worth Euro 22.4 and 18.6 million respectively, payable until the countries join the EU, maybe by 2005.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has claimed that energy use is still rising in the European Union, mainly because of increasing transport consumption and has alleged that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions could return to their 1990 levels by the year 2010 unless Brussels and Member States take firm action; this would include promoting renewable energy, said the EEA.…
SASOL
BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African chemical company Sasol has entered into an agreement with Nigerian national Petroleum Corporation and Chevron Nigeria to develop the Nigeria-based Escravos gas to liquids plant.…
MOZAMBIQUE PIPELINE
BY RICHARD HURST
THE SOUTH African construction company Grinaker LTA has announced that it has won a SA Rand 1.7 billion contract to design, engineer, build and mange the 865 km natural gas pipeline running from Mozambique to South Africa.
It has been commissioned by SA chemicals giant Sasol and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique to have the pipeline operational by 2004.…
INDIA REGULATOR
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN cabinet has cleared a bill that would lead to the establishment of a petroleum refining and marketing regulatory board to monitor prices in the newly deregulated sector. It will also have powers to check profiteering and ensure availability of products.…