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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic has launched an investigation which may lead it to impose safeguard duties on citric acid imports, which Prague claims rose by 18.72 per cent in 2001, threatening domestic producers, who shed 11 per cent of their workers last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic has launched an investigation into concerns about increases in imports of certain welded tubes and pipes, of iron or non-alloy steel and of circular or non-circular cross-section, which it claims are damaging its producer industry to such an extent that temporary safeguard duties may have to be imposed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
“SERIOUS concern” has been expressed by the European Commission over the failure of a number of Member States to set up telecommunications and IT networks to establish a New Computerised Transit System, which should seal an administrative loophole bleeding millions of Euro’s in defrauded revenue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN beer giant Anheuser-Busch has welcomed proposed changes to the European Union’s register protecting geographical references attached to traditional EU drinks products, which would allow it to challenge any application for inclusion by its Czech rival Budejovicky Budvar of its Budweiser brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria are cooperating in a project to harmonise their licensing procedures for fuel rods; the four countries are being encouraged to work together by the European Union, as they are the only eastern European countries wanting to join the EU who are operating Russian pressurised water reactors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (general affairs) has extended the double-checking system on certain steel exports to the EU from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic until this December 31. The regime is designed to detect any abuses of the trade preferences enjoyed by these countries under association agreements with the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS acts of international largesse go, the expansion of the European Union eastwards and southwards must rank as being one of the most generous in history. With research estimates claiming that the size of the EU budget will soar to accommodate the needs of the former communist republics, (plus Cyprus and Malta), we are talking Marshall Plan here; billions of Euro’s being transferred from national coffers in western Europe to the east, via Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic has launched a trade investigation which may lead it to impose safeguard duties on imports of citric acid, which Prague claims have been booming, threatening domestic producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE phytosanitary agreements between the EU and third countries should focus on “a limited number of products of undoubted importance to the parties,” said the European Commission following the emergence of a number of “practical problems” in existing deals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHAT could be more straightforward or fairer, you might think, than the European Union’s veterinary and phytosanitary agreements with non-member countries?

The idea is that each party pledges that the food it exports to the other – be it derived from animals or plants – meets the requirements of its own food safety legislation and that this is then taken on trust by the receiving country.…