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BY MATTHEW BRACE
TASMANIA’S non-ferrous metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence with strong production targets for the next five to ten years.

Miners in Australia’s island state are reluctant to call it a “metals rush” but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
RURAL development will be the CAP’s cornerstone for at least the next decade in its twin ambitions of creating regional growth and supporting farmers who need to modernise, promises the recently arrived European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner, Mrs Mariann Fischer Boel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the European Union (EU) to open its geographical indication protection system to traditionally made meat, other foodstuffs from non-EU countries. The system currently protects EU-made products such as Parma ham and Scotch beef, insisting they are made in their home regions by traditional methods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the European Union (EU) to open up its geographical indication protection system to include traditionally made drinks (and foodstuffs) from non-EU countries. The system currently protects EU-made products such a Champagne and Bordeaux, insisting that they are made in their home regions by traditional methods.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
PROPOSALS for a new European Union (EU) wine regime, which are currently under review, will be unveiled in 12 months’ time according to the recently installed European Commissioner for agriculture, Mrs Mariann Fischer Boel.

In a wide-ranging interview in her Brussels office she admitted that the present arrangements are not working.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW Australian study shows that walnuts can reduce LDL (bad cholesterol) especially in type 2 diabetes sufferers. Published in the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Care, it said walnuts are an integral component of managing diabetic diets.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
SUGAR quotas covering imports from some of the world’s poorest economies are not a feasible option, according to the European Union’s (EU) Commissioner for agriculture, Mrs Mariann Fischer Boel.

She told Confectionary Production at her Brussels office that such quotas would inevitably mean higher prices with consequent damage for the Union’s sugar producers and for the industry, especially where they were set at a lower level than national consumptions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIA has now also appealed against the WTO ruling on EU sugar export subsidies. Despite Brussels appealing itself, Canberra wants the WTO to brand illegal more of the EU regime.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the USA are using a form of plastic sheeting called Hytibar to develop an environmentally safe way of preventing ozone-depleting gas from the pesticide methyl bromide reaching the atmosphere.

The plastic, manufactured by Klerk’s Plastic in Belgium, is made by putting a barrier polymer (ethylene vinyl alcohol) between two layers of polyethylene; this makes the film less permeable and therefore better able to keep the chemical from escaping into the air.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the 100% acquisition of Australia’s WMC Resource Ltd by Switzerland’s Xstrata plc, a Zurich-based international natural resources company that produces copper, zinc, gold, silver, alloys and coal. WMC explores, mines, processes and sells minerals, metals and chemicals, including nickel, copper, uranium oxide, gold and silver.…