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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INCREASE in EU sugar trade fraud has been reported by EU anti-fraud office OLAF, which investigated “a massive increase” in exports into the EU from the Balkans, traditionally net sugar importers prior to a 2000 regulation giving them preferential EU market access.…

BY PHILIP FINE

LITTLE progress was made at the recent 34-country Free Trade Area of the Americas talks. The US still refuses to lift agriculture tariffs, which would damage President George W Bush’s re-election in critical electoral states such as Florida, with large sugar and citrus industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN sugar industry has promised to abide by high ethical standards in future, including its dealings with developing countries. CEFS (Comité Européen des Fatricants de Sucre) and EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions) have signed a joint code of conduct on corporate social responsibility.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUD is centre stage again in European Union (EU) news, following a series of high profile scandals, for instance in Eurostat. Now OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud agency has produced an annual report showing that it is detecting more irregularities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a food trade deal with Macedonia, which – if confirmed – will see Macedonian import duties on a range of EU meat products annually fall to half their current level by 2010, before being scrapped altogether by 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have frozen the 2004 EU market access allowed to Ukraine steel makers at this year’s level, while negotiations continue to agree a comprehensive ferrous products trade deal. Sales have been hampered by the Ukraine’s levying of a Euro 30 per tonne tax on ferrous scrap exports, which the European Commission has opposed, along with the Ukraine government’s refusal to reimburse VAT to local ferrous scrap dealers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
HOW can insurers and governments effectively manage “risk”? The usual way is to base policy on scientific evidence of the probability of an outcome. But this is no longer adequate – it is the perception (last word in italics?)…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government seems finally to have prevailed over the European Union in the long-running row over bed linen anti-dumping duties, with the European Commission proposing that a review of the protection be abandoned, along with plans to re-impose the suspended tariffs themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is promoting collaboration between national tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS programmes, with 14 million patients jointly infected, 70 per cent in Africa. The WHO wants voluntary HIV testing and counselling expanded within TB programmes and TB testing in HIV-endemic areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CARBIBBEAN governments have agreed to improve intellectual property safeguards as a development tool in a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) initiative. It involves improving the development, protection, ownership, management and use of regional intellectual property assets through better regulation and technological innovation.…