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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is has given Belgium two months in which to say how it will prevent Flanders’ regional government from imposing distribution charges on imports of electricity from renewable energy resources, while not levying supplies from Flemish ‘green’ producers, that is directly placed on the national grid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILST Britain’s record on serious accidents at work is declining, the factories, building sites and offices of some eastern European countries joining the European Union (EU) this weekend (May 1) are becoming safer, according to EU statistical agency Eurostat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is has given Belgium two months in which to say how it will prevent Flanders’ regional government from imposing distribution charges on imports of electricity from renewable energy resources, while not levying supplies from Flemish ‘green’ producers, that is directly placed on the national grid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW electronic European Union (EU) livestock tracing system is being introduced, holding data on the movement of animals across the EU. The TRACES system will cost Euro 2.2 million to rollout, being installed in Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Finland this month and in other member states by December 31.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has called on the British government to spend more on the Heath and Safety Executive and local government workplace inspectors, following the release of a report from EU statistical agency Eurostat showing Britain suffering increasing rates of serious work accidents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OXFAM claims six European Union sugar processors hold export subsidy receipts of Euro 819 million, when the EU pledged just Euro 800 million for Iraqi reconstruction. The companies are Beghin Say (France), Sudzucker and Nordzucker (Germany), Britain’s Tate and Lyle, Belgium’s RT and Denmark’s Danisco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Belgium with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over laws restricting the size of drinks bottles to a range of fixed quantities. The Commission considers these restrictions “an unjustified obstacle to the free movement of goods”, giving Belgium two months to devise reforms, or maybe face an ECJ case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIUM is the EU salmonellosis hotspot says the latest comparative figures from Eurostat. In 2001, 104 cases were recorded in Belgium per 100,000 people, compared with Britain’s 29 cases and an EU average of 40.6. Greece had fewest infections (2.9/100,000).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THEY’RE not to everybody’s taste, we quite agree, but there’s no doubt that flavoured cigars have a very devoted band of followers and can no longer be dismissed as a passing fancy. Indeed after speaking to a number of the big players it is easy to gain the impression that the flavoured, (or aromatic), segment has (along perhaps with filters) been the only one to buck the cigar sector’s trend of falling or stagnant sales in recent years.…