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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Vietnam have struck a new textile and clothing trade deal. Until 2005, the EU will increase the size of Vietnam textile and clothing export quotas by between 50 and 75 per cent, generating Euro 200 million of trade opportunities and boosting Vietnamese exports to the EU by 25 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN electronic communications and information technology industry has – finally – hit rock bottom and is now slowly crawling out of the deep recession into which it had slipped, according to a report published by the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SIGNIFICANT reduction of the number of cases for which an export refund can be granted for the trade in live animals has been announced by the European Commission. Brussels says it is acting to take account of animal welfare concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is under pressure from the European Commission to reform its motor insurance legislation, so that compensation is paid to victims of property damage caused by stolen vehicles whose driver cannot be identified.

Brussels has sent a formal request to London requesting that UK legislation allows for such payments, claiming it has a duty to act under the European Union’s (EU) Second Motor Insurance Directive (84/5/EEC) and threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice if it does not.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved some wide-ranging reforms to EU textile trade regulations – noted last year by Textile Month – covering the import of samples and the imposition of possible safeguard duties on Chinese imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
US Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick has backed launching a case against the European Union for refusing to accept genetically modified food. Such a suit would seek to overturn Brussels’ de facto four year-old moratorium on GM food imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved European Commission proposals that anti-dumping duties levied on imports of ferro-silico-manganese from China and the Ukraine should be reduced when consignments of the metal have been damaged before being admitted into the European Union (EU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WEAKNESSES in scientific advice leading the European Commission to propose often controversial catch restrictions in European Union (EU) waters has prompted Brussels to propose a major overhaul of its assessment of stocks.

In a new policy paper (called a Communication) on the subject, the Commission admits the shortcomings of existing systems and suggests ways to better involve the fishing industry itself and other international organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is promoting a set of guidelines it has drawn up with anti-corruption groups Transparency International and Social Accountability International to help businesses confront bribery in their operations and commercial dealings. These Business Principles for Countering Bribery are, said Jermyn Brooks, Transparency International’s Executive Director, “essentially an anti-bribery framework based on best practice.”…