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NETA
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) introduced in the UK on 27
March have begun smoothly, in spite of warnings earlier in the year from
electricity companies that insufficient testing of the system had taken
place and that market conditions were not favourable.…
HEALTH AND SAFETY REPORT
KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health and safety laws should be extended by a new EU directive to cover the 90 per cent of fishing boats that are currently exempt from them, a report from Spanish socialist MEP Miguélez Ramos has claimed.…
FISHING SUBSIDIES
KEITH NUTHALL
A CONCERTED international effort to clarify and tackle the harm caused by fishing subsidies on the conservation of wild fish stocks worldwide is to be launched following a seminar staged by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Concerns were raised by participants, which included more than 60 national governments, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, the World Trade Organisation UNCTAD, (the UN development agency), the International Labour Organisation and the OECD.…
FOOT AND MOUTH TRADE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S watchdog on animal health diseases has called on national governments to respect the International Animal Health Code, in a bid to reduce the spread of Food and Mouth disease and minimise the damage in trade that over-reactions can cause.…
DOG CHIPS
BY SIMON WILCOX
THE LAST mad dog to be found in Singapore was back in 1953, in the days when sick canines shared the midday sun with Englishmen. But from next month, every dog imported into this tiny island-state will need to carry a microchip, certifying that it is free of doggy diseases such as rabies.…
ARGENTINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOT-and-Mouth disease is spreading in Argentina, with 74 outbreaks, (compared with 689 in the UK), affecting 3,667 cattle being registered by March, the International Office of Epizootics has reported. Of these cases, the bulk have been in Buenos Aires province, with smaller outbreaks in the provinces of Cordoba, La Pampa, San Luis and Santa Fe.…
RESEARCH THINK PIECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European farming industry facing more fundamental change than it has in decades, it could be said that funding research into ways of making this transformation less painless has to be a good thing. Whatever the view on this fairly facile assumption, the eyes of the agricultural sector should at least be partly turned on Brussels thus year, where debates for the preparation of a new five-year EU research programme are being staged.…
BOLTON PIECE - PRINT VERSION
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?
Let me make it easy for you.
Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…
ANIMAL TESTS VOTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has set itself on a collision course with the European Commission, by amending the cosmetics directive to ban the sale within the EU of products tested on animals.
In a vote on plans by the Commission to ban animal testing within the EU, while allowing the sale of imported cosmetics that have been produced with such tests, MEP’s voted for a reinstatement of a ban that was agreed in 1993, but has never been implemented.…
INDIAN BED LINEN
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has lost its appeal at the World Trade Organisation against last year’s disputes panel ruling, which censured its imposition of anti-dumping duties on cotton-type bed linen from India. The Appellate Body of the WTO disputes procedure has agreed that the EU did erect duties via procedures that broke international anti-dumping regulations.…