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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has extended a ban on the export of all live pigs, together with porcine semen, ova and embryos, to parts of France, Germany and Luxembourg following new outbreaks of classical swine fever. At the same time it has ordered a one-month extension of controls in Spain until 30 June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Farm Bill, which has passed through the US Congress, will not only potentially depress meat prices by boosting subsidies to American farmers, but also introduce mandatory rules of origin for meat products for the first time.…

BY MARK ROWE
BRITISH museums and historic buildings are being encouraged to bid for funding from a GBPounds 80 million financial support package launched by the European Union, designed to build links between neighbouring EU countries.

Its grant awards will be focused on projects that have economic, ecological and social benefits.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world’s poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers.…

KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS held between the USA and India over a complaint regarding American rules of origin legislation have failed, with New Delhi formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel is established to settle the row; the Indian government claims that they unfairly favour the US and European Union textile industries.New…

Keith Nuthall
MEMBER States of the European Union have 18 months to implement a new directive on collateral, which will harmonise national laws limiting credit risks in financial transactions through the posting of securities and cash as collateral.

In Brussels-terms, the new European legislation has been passed speedily, having been first tabled by the European Commission last March.…

BU ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given clearance under the EU merger

regulations to the acquisition by the German carmaker Volkswagen AG of full

control of Svenska Volkswagen AB, its exclusive wholesale distributor for

the Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda motor vehicles as well as Porsche

motor vehicles in Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched public consultations on three detailed set of guidelines affecting the European Union pharmaceutical industry: on inspection procedures for checking that good clinical practice rules are being followed, on qualifications for inspectors carrying out this work, and on the archiving of good clinical practice files by EU and national authorities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT on the international conventions and European and national laws controlling the use of cannabis as a medicine, has been released by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. The paper offers a legal analysis of the options and limitations of using medicinal cannabis and its derivatives in the EU, as well as noting current practice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LONG-RUNNING German coal industry case involving the acquisition in 1998 of Saarbergwerke AG and Preussag Anthrazit GmbH by RAG Aktiengesellschaft (RAG) took another turn on Tuesday (May 7), when the European Commission approved the deal, nullifying a European Court of First Instance ruling.…