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BY MARK ROWE, in London, JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo, and RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

PERSONAL care products – soaps, cosmetics, lotions and hair products – have always been important consumers of vegetable and animal-based oils and fats. Yet, this is a complex sub-sector of the global oils and fats industry.…

BY MARK ROWE

OTHER member states of the European Union (EU) may have had reservations about the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the once-exclusive EU euroclub, but such sentiments are not shared by the international cosmetics industry. With western European markets reaching a plateau of maturity, the real expansion and investment opportunities lie further east.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) standing committee on the food chain and animal health has lifted a virtual ban on exports to EU member states of meat and dairy products from Bulgaria. Unlike other eastern European countries joining the EU, Bulgaria had not requested additional time for meat and dairy producers to raise health standards to those required in other member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission officials are developing proposed standards insisting all cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) should be self-extinguishing from 2010. The proposals should be released this autumn by new Bulgarian consumer affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, and would – claim Brussels bureaucrats – prevent most smoking-related domestic fires, which kill around 2,000 EU citizens annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STEREOTYPE of Europeans favouring public transport over private cars is deeply flawed according to a new European Commission-funded opinion poll that interviewed 25,767 people. Pollsters Gallup not only confirmed that private motor transport is the most widespread means of making journeys in the EU (53% of those polled drove rather than cycled, walked or took public transport), 22% of these motorists would not drive less, even with dramatic improvements to rail, bus, air and boat transport.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission officials have confirmed that they are developing proposed standards insisting all cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) should be self-extinguishing from 2010. The proposals should be released this autumn by new Bulgarian consumer affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, and would – claim Brussels bureaucrats – prevent most smoking-related domestic fires, which kill around 2,000 EU citizens annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to extend to new EU member states Bulgarian and Romania a convention that would effectively prevent these countries’ lorry drivers from working in the rest of the EU, if they receive driving bans while working outside their home countries.…

BY MARK ROWE
MEMBERSHIP of the European Union (EU) appears to represent something o a ‘promised land’ for the nations of the Balkans. A major sticking point for countries pushing for membership, though, is corruption, and in particular efforts to push through practical and applicable anti-fraud legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dispatched 1.5 million doses of trivalent vaccine to fight foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Thrace, Turkey, on the European mainland, near the country’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Brussels is concerned that FMD is endemic in parts of Turkey, especially with two outbreaks being reported this year close to the European Union, where livestock has free movement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$50 million to Bulgarian and Egyptian subsidiaries of UK-based oil/gas producer Melrose Resources, developing Egypt’s El Mansoura, Southeast El Mansoura, and Qantara Nile delta concessions, and Bulgaria’s Galata gas field and four adjacent offshore concessions.…