Search Results for: Bulgarian

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISTILLED Spirits Council of the United States has pressed the US Trade Representative office for further action over counterfeit spirits from Bulgaria, even though progress has been made against the problem. In a detailed report, it welcomed increased seizures – 1,296 cases of fake US whiskeys in 2006, compared with 284 AEPV cases in 2005, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission struck practical cooperation agreements with the nuclear research institutions of Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia, which will deepen their long-term cooperation regarding the development of nuclear fusion energy with the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). The deals cover the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) in Sofia; the Lithuanian Energy Institute in Kaunas; and the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU – Russia claims safety concerns over these country’s meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PRELIMINARY deal brokered by the European Commission in Moscow covering meat hygiene controls has headed off the immediate threat of Russia banning all imports of European Union (EU) meat and meat products from January 1. The Russian government had warned of an import blockade, because of concerns over the health and safety of meat from Bulgaria and Romania, who join the EU that day and henceforth benefit from pan-EU export rights.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PARIS (ICIS News)–The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has scrapped an exemption enjoyed by Bulgaria’s Chimco AD to Euro 21.43 per tonne definitive anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Bulgarian urea. Chimco had promised to import urea into the EU at a minimum import price, but failed to supply sufficient documents to the European Commission proving it had honoured this promise, said council documents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has made permanently legal across the EU experimental wine-making practices that have been under trial. They include the treatment of must and fermenting wine with charcoal, employing L-ascorbic acid, adding dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) and using yeast mannoproteins.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE in Beirut

THE APPEAL hearing of the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for allegedly infecting over 400 Libyan children with HIV has been brought forward to December 25. The hearing was originally slated for January 31, but was altered in response to concerns by the defence team over the health and psychological conditions of the defendants, who have been in jail since 1999.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 20.1 million to three Bulgarian banks to create a special fund financing small-scale domestic investments promoting energy efficiency and renewable-energy use. United Bulgaria Bank, Postbank and RZB Bulgaria are participating in the scheme which has been developed under the EBRD’s policy of helping Bulgaria deal with the forced decommissioning of its Kozloduy nuclear reactors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Bulgaria’s Maritza East I Power Company Euro 430.5 million to finance construction of a two-300MW generator lignite-fired power plant on a ‘build-own-operate-transfer’ basis. The project will help Bulgaria deal with the closure of nuclear power plants at Kozloduy – a safety-inspired condition of the country’s 2007 European Union (EU) accession.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S fair to say that neither Bulgarian nor Romanian wine stands very high in wine-lovers’ affections at the moment. That wasn’t always so.

The wines were held in some esteem in the 80s, for instance, under the last years of communist rule, but standards have slipped pretty drastically in the score of years since then.…