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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Farm Bill, which has passed through the US Congress, will not only potentially depress meat prices by boosting subsidies to American farmers, but also introduce mandatory rules of origin for meat products for the first time.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to enter into swift negotiations over the so-called ‘open skies’ agreements with the United States and individual Member States, if, as expected, these bilateral air transport deals are soon ruled illegal.

Earlier this year, the European Court of Justice was advised by its advocate general Antonio Tizzano to strike down US deals made with eight European countries, in effect ordering them to be redrawn.…

BY PHILIP FINE

CLASS-ACTION status has been granted by the US Federal Court to a group of 30,000 workers who allege sweatshop conditions in clothing factories in Saipan. The Pacific Island has US territorial status, making it immune to tariffs and able to affix US origin labels to clothing.…

BY MARK ROWE
BRITISH museums and historic buildings are being encouraged to bid for funding from a GBPounds 80 million financial support package launched by the European Union, designed to build links between neighbouring EU countries.

Its grant awards will be focused on projects that have economic, ecological and social benefits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MISSPELT word ‘lite’ is not sufficiently descriptive to be a European Union trademark for food products, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It rejected an appeal by German company Rewe Zentral AG against a refusal by the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs), to register ‘lite’ a ‘Community trademark.’…

BY MONICA DOBIE
The European Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT), a subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corporation, approximately Euro125 million to modernise an existing vehicle manufacturing plant in Adapazari, western Turkey, 120 km east of Istanbul.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
Tyre producer, Pirelli Pneus SA, a subsidiary of Italy’s Pirelli SpA, is likely to receive financial assistance from the European Investment Bank to help the company flourish in the South American market.

The bank has drawn up plans to lend the company Euro 44 million to modernise and extend an existing plant in Feira de Santana, in Bahia Brazil, to produce radial tyres for light vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched a comprehensive research programme to unmask mysteries surrounding the contraction of venous thrombosis by air passengers, including epidemiological, pathophysiological and clinical studies.

Scientists will aim to determine the frequency and causes of travellers’ thrombosis, to identify who is at greatest risk and what may be done to prevent the condition.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A CONTROVERSIAL revision of the EU’s directive on airport landing and take-off slots which would reduce historic rights and open the market to new entrants has received broad approval from the European Parliament’s transport committee. The Association of European Airlines has expressed “grave concern” about aspects of the legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEFINITIVE anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union of the fragrance fixative coumarin that has been manufactured in China have been re-imposed by the EU Council of Ministers. It agreed that a rate of Euro 3,479 per tonne should be set, reflecting concerns that the high 50 per cent level of previous dumping leading to the old duties being erected, (in 1996), would be resumed if the tariffs lapsed.…