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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN beer industry suffering from high grain prices has been given a helping hand by the European Commission, which has announced that European Union (EU) cereal duties will remain suspended for another year, until June 30, 2009.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE JAPANESE motor manufacturer Toyota is pushing ahead with a tie-up with the giant French energy firm EDF (Electricité de France) to develop plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHV) in Europe. Tests have begun in France on vehicles equipped with Toyota’s hybrid technology which combines a gasoline engine with an electric battery-driven motor that can be charged by plugging into the domestic electricity supply or at public charging stations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WIDE range of novel transport navigation services will be supplied by European Union global positioning navigational service Galileo, a Brussels conference has heard. Now the system’s Euro 3.6 billion roll-out funding and management by 2013 has been approved, focus is turning to the benefiting transport technologies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEMBERS of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are for the first time seriously debating a global agreement on fishing subsidies, setting rules on their scope that would apply across the globe, and which could ban financial handouts for increasing fleet capacity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) symposium has been told that governments must pay special care to the possible legal pitfalls of shifting to interconnected aeronautical information management (AIM) systems. Speaking to the conference in Montréal, Canada, on June 2, Paul Lamy, ICAO air navigation bureau deputy director said the aviation industry must "pay attention to a number of legal and institutional considerations that could negatively impact on the transition from AIS [existing aeronautical information services] to AIM."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) and USA have bought themselves more time to resolve the long-running banana trade dispute that has been subject to World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes procedures since 1996.

They have agreed with WTO officials to postpone the adoption of a ruling branding the EU a scofflaw over its favouring the import of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those exported from central and south America, usually by US firms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission today announced European Union (EU) cereal duties will remain suspended for another year, until June 30, 2009, because of continuing food shortages and high prices. The tariffs were originally lifted for six months last December.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies is drafting advice on the morality of modern food production techniques and policies, for publication by December. The European Commission body is considering the ethics of food security policies, agricultural sustainability, the global food trade, biofuels, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, GMOs and intellectual property rights.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POWERFUL international bloc is debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement insisting upon cooperation over fighting fake food products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea in Geneva.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

WITH the launch of the long-debated Galileo orbiting satellite system now largely secure, attention is being turned to its varied applications and services. These were debated last week (Thurs June 12) at a half day conference for European Parliament members and European Commission officials.…