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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s agriculture committee has backed a proposal to raise European Union (EU) milk production quotas by 2% on April 1, to allow producers to meet surging demand worldwide.

However, MEPs have suggested this be voluntary for member states – not compulsory as tabled by the Commission – to allow some governments to keep their national dairy prices high if necessary.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) may establish a special sub-committee to create standards for biofuels, while an alliance of the European Union (EU), the USA and Brazil has questioned the global body’s ability to handle the job.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE, in Auckland; LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas; MONICA

DOBIE, in Ottawa; and BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg

NEW Zealand has long retained a position of prominence in the global butter products

industry, despite the fact that competitors are always looking to seize export markets in

what is an increasingly competitive market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round maybe drawing towards a close, the pharmaceutical industry might start to consider that a final deal could lead to the elimination of most import duties on drugs and medicines, traded worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A TRIPARTITE alliance of the European Union (EU), the USA and Brazil has released detailed proposals for proposed international standards for biodiesel and bioethanol. In a ‘white paper’, the three participants have identified standards components that are similar, with significant, and fundamental differences, and makes recommendations on how to achieve international harmonisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving to ban all Brazilian beef imports from today (Jan 31) following concerns about Brazil’s handling of its latest foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. The European Commission had not wanted to impose a blanket ban and had instead offered Brazil a jointly-agreed list of FMD-safe producers, who would export to Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to ban all Brazilian beef imports following concerns about Brazil’s handling of its latest foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. The European Commission had not wanted a blanket ban and instead offered Brazil a jointly-agreed list of FMD-safe producers, exporting to Europe.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

WITH the start of production at its new automotive plant in the Shushary district of St. Petersburg on December 21, Toyota will become the latest Japanese car manufacturer to set up shop in a market it says has "tremendous potential" and is looking forward to the roll-out of the first Russian-built Camry.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHICHEVER way you look, the oil and gas sector is investing in biofuels. The larger energy companies – driven by an eye for a new and potentially lucrative market as well as shareholder concern and governmental and international political pressure – are investigating both first and second generation biofuels.…

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.…