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BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission has announced an extension of the areas in Argentina from which sales to the EU of de-boned and maturated meat are suspended because of foot and mouth disease. Brussels said last month that shipments from parts of Formosa and Salta had been halted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations (UN) Convention against Transnational Organised Crime has come into force, imposing a duty on ratifying countries to outlaw membership of an organised criminal group, which it defines legally. So far, said the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 48 countries have ratified it, including Monaco, Nigeria, Serbia & Montenegro, Peru, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Philippines, Tajikistan, Albania, France, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, China, Norway and Afghanistan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SURPRISINGLY wide support for the west African plan to rid the world of cotton subsidies has been voiced at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit, in Cancun, Mexico. The Canadian and Australian governments yesterday (10 Sept) threw their developed country weight behind the plan, as did WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has suspended the shipment into the EU of de-boned and maturated bovine meat from northern Argentina following reports of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs in certain provinces. The European Commission said the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health had voted in favour of the ban which will apply to meat from the departments of Ramon Lista in the province of Formosa and from General Jose de San Martin, Rivadavia, Oran, Iruya and Santa Victoria in the Province of Salta, where the outbreak has been centred, (it is close to the border with Paraguay and Bolivia).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA, Canada and Argentina have requested a WTO disputes panel be established to rule on the EU’s de facto five-year freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs. The three countries claim it is illegal under world trade law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked EU ministers to approve – until September 30 next year – the contined import of wines from Argentina containing malic acid, which is banned in European wine production. Brussels said it wanted to ensure the “continued smooth progress” of negotiations towards a comprehensive EU-Argentina wine trade deal.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked EU ministers to approve – until September 30 next year – the continuing import of wines from Argentina containing malic acid, which is banned in European wine production. Brussels said it wanted to ensure the “continued smooth progress” of negotiations towards a comprehensive EU-Argentina wine trade deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers have approved the continued import of wines from Argentina containing malic acid until September 30 next year, even though the substance is banned in European wine production. Ministers backed the European Commission’s call for the concession, which is designed to “smooth progress” towards a comprehensive EU-Argentina wine trade deal in 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, Canada and Argentina have requested that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel adjudicate in their diplomatic row with the European Union over its de facto freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs.…