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EUROSTAT EU AGRICULTURAL INCOME STATISTICS BEEF PIG MEAT CHICKEN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CATTLE prices rose across the European Union (EU) last year, according to the latest figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, but fell for other livestock. Cattle prices increased by 3%, although with wide variations between member states: up 12.3% in Germany and 2.5% in France, but down 2.1% in Britain.…
WTO REPORT DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND - MODALITIES FOLLOW UP - ROUND CONCLUSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION
THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…
VAT DUTY FREE PERFUME EU IMPORTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
QUANTATIVE limits on the amount of duty free perfume that can be imported into the European Union (EU) are to be scrapped, under an overhaul of the EU’s excise duty rules. The European Commission has proposed the change because perfume has already been exempted from excise duty by EU laws by a previous reform.…
WTO BONELESS CHICKEN CUTS EU BRAZIL CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has until June 27 to reclassify its customs designation of frozen boneless chicken cut imports, a WTO arbitrator has ruled. Brussels must admit into the EU cuts of 1.2%-3% salt content as ‘salted’ rather than ‘frozen’ cuts, meaning lower duties will apply.…
AUTOMOBILE AIR CONDITIONING DIRECTIVE APPROVED - EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
AFTER years of uncertainty, a timetable has now been fixed for the elimination of the air conditioning gas HFC 134a from cars sold in the European Union (EU). No, this won’t mean an end to air conditioned autos in Europe any more: what the deal really means is that auto and component makers have been given a generously long time to come up with a new refrigerating agent that doesn’t affect the climate by emitting fluorinating greenhouse gases.…
CHINA COAL MINE METHANE EXTRACTION PROJECTS WORLD BANK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is not always the case that an initiative tackling an mining environmental problem also directly improves the health and safety of miners, but this is true for a new World Bank project to remove methane from Chinese coal mines.…
NANOTECHNOLOGY INVENTIONS FEATURE - PAINTS AND COATINGS
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
FOR devotees of Captain Kirk, Dr Spock and the original Star Trek crew, the thrilling world of nanotechnology could sound vaguely familiar. It offers the 21st century a swathe of new products and services, from dirt-repelling cars to ‘thinking’ materials that can change colour automatically.…
DEVELOPMENT AID INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP, LEAD FREE PETROL, CULTURAL TRADE UNESCO, IFC ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNEP – RISK MANAGEMENT
A BOOK detailing practical ways in which governments can reduce the costs of dealing with major challenges such bird flu, terrorism and climate change has been released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).…
UNEP - RISK MANAGEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BOOK detailing practical ways in which governments can reduce the costs of dealing with major challenges such bird flu, terrorism and climate change has been released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). *The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges http://www.thenewpublicfinance.org/…
EU WORKING TIME NURSING FEATURE EU WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE BRITAIN IMPLEMENTATION
BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITISH nurses might be forgiven for thinking that the 25 eminent judges who make up the European Union’s (EU) top legal institution, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), have little in common with them, and they may well be right.…