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EU WINE LABELLING REGULATIONS AMENDED
BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON
expressions” to sell their products in the EU provided they meet a number
of conditions including a requirement that the traditional expression is
“distinctive”, is recognised and governed in the third country and has been
used for at least ten years.…
DOHA ROUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference on the faltering World Trade Organisation (WTO) agricultural liberalisation negotiations has been told that full agreement is now unlikely to be achieved until 2007. If this comes to pass, it would drive a coach and horses through the existing January 2005 deadline for concluding the Doha Development Round, of which the agricultural talks form a key part.…
ORPHAN DRUGS FEATURETTE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THREE years after it was launched by the London-based European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA), the new procedure for the designation of orphan drugs and for assisting in their development is widely judged a success though there remain serious questions over actually getting the authorised drugs to patients.…
CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE
BY DEIRDRE MASON
250 words, DM Pounds 48, plus expenses: Train/tube travel from Honor Oak Park to Piccadilly return on 4 November: ?6.20, Phone card ?5 (Tickets should come in post – if not – can you ask Deirdre if she’s sending them in – of not, just send in the claim anyway.…
ISLE OF GRAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLAN to improve the flow of natural gas into London through a new LNG import terminal at Kent’s Isle of Grain port is being supported by a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan of up to Euro 30 million.…
BORDER CONTROLS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S legitimate tobacco trade may face a renewed increase in black-market supplies, if renewed pressure from the European Commission on the British government to reduce customs seizures of EU-duty-paid tobacco is successful.
The Commission has started formal European law infringement proceedings against the UK, seemingly unimpressed by concessions from its government over the amounts of tobacco and alcohol that can be imported from other member countries for personal use.…
RISK PERCEPTION CONFERENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference is being staged in Brussels this week, which will examine how to create realistic risk perceptions about controversial subjects, where public concern can significantly influence democratic government policies. The European Commission organised event will especially focus on food safety, where fears about biotechnology – especially on genetically modified foodstuffs – have forced European Union (EU) institutions and governments to take a very cautious stance.…
CHATHAM HOUSE CONFERENCE
BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE IMMEDIATE challenge posed by global warming to the petroleum industry – reducing carbon dioxide while maintaining low-regulated emissions – has to be combined with care that consumers can afford resulting new technologies and fuels, a Royal Institute for International Affairs’ climate technology conference in London heard.…
ISLE OF GRAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLAN to improve the flow of natural gas into London through a new LNG import terminal at Kent’s Isle of Grain port is being supported by a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan of up to Euro 30 million.…
SIDEBAR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BIOCHEMICAL threat posed by algal blooms is the marine equivalent of a Victorian pea-souper London fog, only one that was a living organism, sucking oxygen from the air, killing thousands of people. Nitrogen and phosphates leaching into the sea from farms and industrial air pollution are ideal food for single-celled phytoplankton, or algae, which reproduce madly in the abundant sunshine of Europe’s increasingly warm summers.…