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POLAND INVESTMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH American Tobacco Company is this year’s third new largest investor in Poland, after the French Credit Agricole, and the Casino supermarket company, according to a Polish government report. The company, present on the Polish market since 1991, is the now third largest tobacco producer in the country.…
CODEX THINK PIECE
BY ALAN OSBORN
MOST governments are keenly concerned about the quality of food their people eat, and quite rightly so. They pass laws to ensure food purity and safety and that’s all very commendable – but it can be overdone.
Regulations can, sometimes deliberately, be drawn up so tightly that they effectively bar the sale of food produced in other countries, thus constituting an impediment to free trade.…
POLLUTION REPORTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS might fear that the old industrial saying ‘where there’s muck, there’s brass’ may no longer apply to them, but the European Commission is out to prove that crop productivity can be boosted by the filth that can be dumped on land from manufacturing sectors.…
IMPERIAL-EXXON
BY MONICA DOBIE
IMPERIAL Oil and the Exxon Mobil Corporation have reached an agreement under which Imperial will become the exclusive marketer of Mobil branded lubricant oil products in Canada. Imperial already markets Esso branded lubricants and other petroleum products in Canada for Exxon Mobil.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Union countries will have to ensure that at least two per cent of their transport fuel supplies are in the form of bio-fuels – made from sugar beet, cereals, maize and rape-seed – by 2005, under a European Commission directive to be proposed very shortly, said Franz Fischler, agriculture Commissioner.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW international fishing deals are being developed by the European Union, which should allow fishing businesses to exploit grounds overseas while efforts are made to conserve stocking levels in Europe’s own territorial waters.
EU ministers have been asked to approve a deal negotiated by the European Commission with west Africa’s Guinea-Bissau, which will last until 2006.…
ARGENTINA TILES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has come under political pressure to scrap its anti-dumping duties on imports of Italian ceramic tiles, after a disputes panel of the World Trade Organisation ruled that it had broken global agreements in the way that it established the tariffs.…
CHEMICAL COMPANIES FINED OVER MARKET SHARING ALLEGATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
Six chemical companies have been fined a total of 57.53 million euros (about pounds 34.5 million) by the European Commission for price-fixing and market-sharing in respect of sodium gluconate, a chemical mainly used to clean metal and glass.…
WASTE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WASTE produced by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries should not be spread on land without a detailed evaluation of its contents and properly qualified advice of its potential effect on the environment, a report from the European Commission has claimed.…
TOULOUSE EXPLOSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REVIEW of European safety laws designed to prevent industrial explosions – such as that which recently ripped through the Atofina fertiliser plant in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people – is to be launched by a specialist EU committee.…