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WHISTLEBLOWERS
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is drawing up detailed guidelines informing its staff when they can talk to the media and the public, without breaching their contracts, following criticism from the European Ombudsman Jacob Söderman that existing rules were “insufficiently clear.”…
ERNST AND YOUNG - CHINA
BY MARK ROWE
ERNST and Young have been appointed by China’s largest bank to audit its books amid concerns about the high rate of non-performing loans in the country. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has hired the company to audit about a fifth of its business, the first time the bank has used foreign auditors for its accounts.…
CHINA IMPORTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MARK ROWE
THE EUROPEAN Union has agreed a suspension of Chinese imports of molluscs, crustaceans, frozen shrimps and prawns because of concerns about contamination; it follows the discovery of “serious deficiencies” in China’s medical residue control system and “problems related to the use of banned substances in the veterinary field.”…
CHINA IMPORTS
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to suspend Chinese imports of rabbit meat and poultry following the discovery of “serious deficiencies” in China’s medical residue control system and “problems related to the use of banned substances in the veterinary field.”…
CANADA - FAR EAST
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S beef export industry is pursuing Asia as a potential market, in order to loosen its dependence on the United States.
Marketing managers are looking to exploit a new niche; western-style steak houses that started becoming popular in Taiwan three years ago, and are now spreading throughout the far east.…
AGRO-SATELLITE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN company Rapid Eye AG is developing a new type of geographical survey satellite, specialising in agricultural data, with EU-approved Euro 37 million German government grants.…
GMO RULES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMMON EU technical rules for declaring information and making market approval applications for GM food products have been approved by the Council of Ministers.…
FLORIDA TAX
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WTO has established a disputes settlement panel to examine Brazil’s complaint about Florida’s “equalizing tax” on imported processed orange and grapefruit products.…
EU RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has called for a European organisation spreading expertise on plant science to be created. He has also stressed that the oncoming 2003-2006 EU Sixth Framework Programme for research has earmarked Euro 685 million for food quality and safety studies.…