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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a paper industry deal which will see Norway’s Norske Skog and Canada’s Abitibi acquire complete control of their subsidiary Pan Asia Paper Company, buying out its third shareholder, South Korea’s Hansol Paper Co Ltd.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Union’s LIFE-Environment programme has selected six British projects for grants under its latest allocation of 69 million euros (pounds 43 million). Altogether 109 projects in the EU countries are being supported, mostly in water resource management.…

BY PHILIP FINE

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating

inspection rules for pharmaceutical products in an effort to improve the

safety and efficiency of production and restore consumer and manufacturer

confidence in the agency.

The planned revision of the current "good manufacturing practice

Program" comes in the wake of several recent incidents that have shaken

confidence in

drugs manufacture in the US.…

From Alan Osborn
The German travel company TUI AG (formerly Preussag) has

acquired sole control of Nouvelles Frontières, a French company also

active in the holiday sector, under a deal approved today (Tuesday 27th)

by the European Commission.TUI currently holds around 30% of NF’s capital

and is now is exercising an exclusive option to buy shares from the NF

founder Jacques Maillot (who has 41.92 per cent) and a number of minority

shareholders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ERECTION of EU temporary protective duties on cereals from Russia and the Ukraine is being considered by the European Commission. A production boom is lowering prices on world markets, threatening the financial health of EU producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed tougher EU rules for health controls on meat, dairy products and live bivalve molluscs, including science-based approaches to meat inspection and a continuous flow of information between farms and slaughterhouses. There would be monitoring programme of mollusc harvesting areas and bans on consumption of milk or is products where health standards have been broken.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has increased its grants for the

restructuring and conversion of vineyards in the EU in the 2002-3 marketing

year by 5 per cent over the 2001-2 figure to 443 million euros (pounds 270

million). The allocation will be topped up by some 42 million euros (pounds

26 million) which was unspent in 2001-2 because not all countries could

justify claims.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is channeling Euro 2 million into a legal aid and reform programme in Kosovo, to build an effective judicial system in this war-torn and UN administered Balkan province. Money will be directed to the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates, which received aid last year to establish a legal aid system for the poor.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MORE detailed guidelines have been proposed by the European Commission to enable food processors using GM products to improve pre-and post-marketing monitoring of foodstuffs. Research carried out by the University of Newcastle has provided evidence that GM genes can find their way into human gut bacteria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to formally ratify the new International Cocoa Agreement 2001.…