Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

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.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHILEAN government has requested formal talks at the World Trade Organisation with Peru, over a sales tax regime for cigarettes, made from dark, premium bright and standard bright tobacco. The taxation varies for each of these categories by between S/0.025 (Peruvian Sol) to S/0.100 per unit, with higher amounts being charged for brands that are sold in three or more countries than for those sold in fewer countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) is about to complete a new model computer system that will help it and other medical regulators effectively marshal the mountain of data regarding new pharmaceutical products and keep information up to date.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been asked by justice and internal affairs ministers of the 15 EU countries to consider legislation that would make it compulsory to include an adjective and alphanumeric code specifying the colour of a vehicle on the registration certificate.…

BY MIKE FOX, in Montreal
WINNEPEG, in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba, may sound like the sort of city which would only merit a small regional airport, but the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) has big plans to exploit its unique position.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE NEW Zealand government has imposed a series of trade restrictions, because of Foot and Mouth, clamping down on imports of venison, cattle semen and dairy from the UK and beef from Argentina, among many other products.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has announced that it will accept the ruling of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation, which found that Brussels had broken international rules on anti-dumping duties in a case regarding Indian bed linen imports.…

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.…

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.…