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ARGENTINE FMD OUTBREAK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has suspended imports of de-boned and matured bovine meat from eight departments in the Argentine province of Corientes, due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The disease has also recently been reported breaking out in Thrace, Turkey, and across Egypt.…
EU WTO ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW EFSA BOSS BUDGET ROW – LATEST ADVICE
THE FRENCHWOMAN appointed to take the vacant top executive director job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will need all her political skills to solve a potential budget crisis facing the agency.…
EU EXTERNAL AID AUDIT TENDER - EU ENLARGEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL accounting firms have been asked to tender for contracts to audit external aid programmes managed by the European Commission, focusing on European Union (EU) membership applicants such as Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria. A maximum of three firms will be offered contracts from either of two ‘lots’ of work, one commanding annual budgets of Euro 1 million and the other Euro 2 million.…
EU ROUND UP - EU COMPETITION INQUIRY GAS CROSSBORDER TRANSMISSION BIOFUELS, BIOMASS, EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition directorate general has said it will launch legal action against restrictive business practices and abuses of dominant positions in European Union (EU) gas markets. In a long awaited report, it promised to act against long-term downstream contracts and restricted access to capacity on gas pipelines, storage and inter-connectors between member states.…
USA CHINA EU IMPORT QUOTA CHICKEN BEEF CATTLE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 15 meat and livestock European Union (EU) annual import quotas for American products, including 16,665 tonnes of poultry meat. The move has been negotiated with Washington because of the EU’s incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries.…
AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY DESIGN RIGHTS WIPO EU
BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
THE POLITICAL institutions of the European Union (EU) are debating how to join an international system that would protect EU manufacturers’ design rights across a wide range of non-European countries in one simple operation. In an initiative that could help auto manufacturers secure the creative aspects of their vehicle design from plagiarism, the European Commission wants to link the EU’s existing Community Design system, (which protects manufacturers’ designs within the 25 EU member states), to a global design registration system run by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a UN agency.…
BIRD FLU POULTRY PRODUCTION PRICE FALL FEARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.
ENDS…
BIRD FLU ROUND UP FAO MIDDLE EAST AFRICA WARNING EU RESEARCH EU AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY assessment from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that not only could bird flu now be endemic in Turkey but that there is a serious risk of migratory birds from Africa this Spring carrying the pathogen further afield.…
BIRD FLU POULTRY PRODUCTION PRICE FALL FEARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.
ENDS…
IMO ICS SUBSTANDARD SHIPPING CONTROLS ERIKA UNSAFE SHIPS
BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE LATEST round of European Union (EU) proposals to tighten up laws fighting the use of illegally unsafe commercial shipping, announced on November 23, 2005, will place shippers who want to continue operating in EU-controlled waters under closer scrutiny than ever, says the European Commission.…