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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered tests on all imports of shrimps from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, (Burma), and poultry from Thailand to ensure antibiotic residues do not exceed EU health limits, following concerns raised by spot-checks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to seek authorisation from European Union member governments to negotiate the formal accession of the EU to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Brussels said that in spite of the EU’s economic strength and the independent political power of its institutions, it carried little weight in the adoption of essential international rules in the transport sector.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ASK most people what they do with maple syrup and the majority will reply they use it to drizzle over pancakes in the morning. Maple syrup producers in Quebec, the world’s leading producer of the sweet treat, are trying to change that.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned on the EU of jelly mini-cups containing the food additive konjac (E 425), which take time to dissolve and have lead to the deaths of several American and Canadian children through choking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to update its monitoring systems for its trade in clothing and textiles with the limited number of countries with whom it does not have trade agreements covering the sector, which includes Taiwan.

Notably, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to update rules on surveillance and electronic documentation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is expected this month (May) to announce a proposed directive boosting co-generation, although Eurelectric thinks it may at the same time moderate earlier targets for doubling the share of energy represented by the sector.

This has already been rejected as too ambitious by the European electricity industries association and although Brussels may keep to the overall target, which would see CHP rising to 18 per cent of total energy supply, it may abandon ideas that individual requirements should be imposed on Member States.…

Keith Nuthall
AUTOMOBILE industry products and components from the United States will be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of Washington’s controversial ‘safeguard’ duties protecting the American steel industry.

The European Commission has asked EU ministers to approve a selected range of products, where the levying of duty will cause pain to US exporters.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a partial liberalisation of the rules covering wine labelling that should allow producers of ordinary still wine some scope for the use of more descriptive terms in the future. At present ordinary wine labels can carry only officially authorised terms whereas for sparkling wines and others, other words may be used, if they are not specifically banned.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
More than 3,000 workers at the Nissan SA factory near Pretoria, South Africa, are on strike over the generation of a surplus of SARand 245 million (US$22.7 million) in Nissan SA’s retirement funds.

A spokesman for the National Union of Metal Workers (Numsa) Dumsa Ntuli said that the workers had downed tools quickly while the company had urgently sought a court order to stop workers from participating in industrial action.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has tightened a proposed reform of the European Union rules protecting construction workers from asbestos, cutting maximum exposure levels, especially during demolition, removal, repair and maintenance work, (except for asbestos cement work). Here, workers would be exposed to a maximum average of 0.05 fibres per cm2 over eight hours, rather than 0.1.…