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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of rounds of public consultation has been launched by the European Commission on detailed guidelines for clinical trials on medicinal products. These include rules on good clinical practice, ethics committee procedures, authorisation requests, making amendments to applications and guidance on the collection, verification and presentation of adverse reaction reports arising from clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.…

Keith Nuthall
THE TEXTILE sector was a copybook blot in an otherwise positive report on open markets and liberalisation in the European Union, released recently by the World Trade Organisation. It concluded: “Pursuing trade liberalisation through multilateral, regional and bilateral initiatives, the European Union has maintained its markets largely open, except for textiles and agriculture.”…

Keith Nuthall
A STAY of execution has been granted to American textile exporters, after the European Union Council of Ministers decided it would postpone the implementation of a first round of protective duties, erected in retaliation to the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Belgium may be charged in the European Court of Justice unless it changes its legislation on the imposition of tobacco excise duties within two months, the European Commission said today (Monday).

The complaint is over the Belgian practice of demanding payment of excise duties at the time a “fiscal mark” is issued and not when the products are released for consumption, as laid down in EU regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed new tougher animal health regulations for live exports, which would insist on high standards of cleanliness at staging posts created to rest livestock in transit. The new rules – which must be approved by European Union ministers to take effect – would tell staging post managers to “clean and disinfect” the areas within 24 hours of a visit by transported animals.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A RELAXATION of European Union rules governing British slaughterhouses and processing plants has been agreed by the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and will enter into force after formal adoption by the European Commission.…

ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition by the Italian weaving machinery manufacturer Promatech SpA, of Sulzer Textil, the textile machinery division of the Swiss company Sulzer Ltd.

Competition approval was given after Promatech agreed to divest itself of rapier weaving machines operations in Verona in Italy and Solothurn in Switzerland.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE of Britain’s best-known food safety experts, Deirdre Hutton, has been appointed to the board of the newly formed European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Ms Hutton, who is chairman of the National Consumer Council, led a recent DTI panel on the Food Chain and Crops for Industry and was a member of the government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (the Curry report).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOUGH restrictions applied by the Austrian and Swedish governments on the use of cadmium in their territories are likely to be scrapped, after the European Court of Justice ruled that amendments to EU legislation permitting them to retain these rules were actually illegal.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is considering plans to lend up to Euro 135 million to Italy’s La Rinascente SpA retail group, to help it build and operate one shopping centre in the Campania region, (surrounding Naples), and four new hypermarkets, (two in Campania and two in Sicily).…