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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked European Union (EU) ministers to formally approve a wine trade agreement negotiated earlier this year with Australia. The agreement will lead to Australia banning the use by Australian drinks producers of established EU market descriptors such as Champagne, Port, Heritage and Lambrusco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked European Union (EU) ministers to formally approve a wine trade agreement negotiated earlier this year with Australia. The agreement will lead to Australia banning the use by Australian drinks producers of established EU market descriptors such as Champagne, Port, Heritage and Lambusco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked European Union (EU) ministers to formally approve a wine trade agreement negotiated earlier this year with Australia. The agreement will lead to Australia banning the use by Australian drinks producers of established EU market descriptors such as Champagne, Port, Heritage and Lambusco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIPLOMATIC grumbles are emerging about the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system, claiming its complexity could break EU commitments under the being made at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) technical barriers to trade agreement. A meeting of the WTO technical barriers to trade committee heard Argentina, Brazil, the USA, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, Chile, China, Mexico and Thailand raise concerns that REACH could impose illegally difficult tasks on exporters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked European Union (EU) ministers to formally approve a wine trade agreement negotiated earlier this year with Australia. The agreement will lead to Australia banning the use by Australian drinks producers of established EU market descriptors such as Champagne, Port, Heritage and Lambusco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIPLOMATIC grumbles have started to emerge about the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system, with claims being made at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) its complexity could break EU commitments under the WTO’s technical barriers to trade agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round moves towards completion, a big push is underway to see a wine and spirits geographical indication register established within final deal. A WTO special group for the issue met yesterday (Mon Dec 3) and supporters of the register pushed for full negotiations on the issue, ending technical discussions that have dragged on for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPACE maybe called the final frontier on TV, but for mining industry and environmentalists, bragging rights must surely go to the ocean deeps – the most inaccessible and unexplored regions on Earth. Speculation has been continuing for decades about the potential mineral riches on ocean floors, however there have always been four obvious problems about extracting them: noone really knows what is down there; the expense of prospecting for such minerals could be prohibitive; there is yet no comprehensive internationally agreed legal regime covering potential work in international waters; and there are risks it could cause irreparable damage to ecosystems that are barely understood.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

ONLY a small fraction of food induced illnesses are reported to the public health authorities because most cases are sporadic and outside recognised outbreaks, Robert Tauxe, of the Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA, told a key Brussels environmental health meeting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round pushes towards its completion, American diplomats have come under intense scrutiny regarding the payment of subsidies to US food producers. US trade partners want detailed information on these payments, so they can categorise them in any final Doha deal – which will cap subsidies, according to how they are defined.…