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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the United States it has until this December 17 to implement a previous ruling that it stages a new sunset review into renewing anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is an oft-quoted truism that where the money goes criminals follow, and, sadly, this is true of the insurance sector. The industry is not only growing in size, it is offering increasingly complex products and spreading its tentacles into further flung reaches of developing and emerging markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COSMETICS industry has become a key focus for cooperation between regulators in the United States and the European Union (EU), following an EU-US summit staged in Washington this month (June). A detailed communiqué said that cooperation would be ramped up between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the industry/cosmetics unit of the European Commission’s enterprise directorate-general (DG).…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
PROPOSALS for a new directive on veterinary legislation and disease prevention in fish farming have been promised in an exclusive interview with Fish Farming International by the European Commissioner for fisheries Dr Joe Borg; it will be presented to the European Union (EU) Council of Fisheries Ministers before the summer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL assessment of commodity markets until 2014 is predicting that increased production worldwide will depress the price of traded meat. Written by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this ‘Agricultural Outlook’ predicts slow but steady falls in beef prices, because of the gradual improvement in US production, and poultry, following “continued investment in integrated poultry systems, particularly in developing countries”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW group of specialists and academics forged by the European Commission will focus on the cancer risks associated with environmental and nutritional factors, as well as individual susceptibility. This ‘Network of Excellence’ ECNIS (environmental cancer, nutrition and individual susceptibility) is the latest group established to link experts from across the European Union (EU), under the European Research Area policy.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THERE was much optimism earlier this year that the European Union’s (EU) revamped working time directive might be finally agreed this summer but it all fizzled out in June and to all intents and purposes we’re back to deadlock again.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has published new standards agreed earlier this year on dealing with:

*Managing animal and human health risks from BSE – see http://www.oie.int/downld/SC/2005/bse_2005.pdf;

*Preventing the spread of bird flu – see http://www.oie.int/downld/SC/2005/avian_influenza_2005.pdf;…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Romania’s European Drinks Group Euro 195 million to fund a long-term investment and expansion programme. Its aim, said a bank memorandum, was to ensure the drinks and food producer changed from “a (large) family run entrepreneurial company into a well organised large corporate”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and its member states should gove more priority to fighting infectious diseases, an international working group of experts has claimed. Writing for the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), the report said EU governments should better coordinate their actions against a problem that respects no political borders.…