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WTO TALKS UPDATE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) is approaching a key deadline in the agricultural section of its ongoing Doha Development Round. Its 146 member countries have until March 31 to complete a so-called ‘modalities’ agreement for the discussions. This should include binding targets for the talks on future tariff levels, import quota sizes, export subsidies and production grants.…
EASTERN EUROPE THINK PIECE
BY ALAN OSBORN
WE are not inclined to disagree with those who say the enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 countries in 2004 is to be done on terms much less damaging to present EU farmers, and conversely much less favourable to incoming farmers, than seemed probable a year ago.…
EURATOM RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission made a formal call for nuclear specialists involved in collaborative studies with experts from other European Union (EU) Member States to submit proposals for grants from the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. Brussels has set aside a budget of Euro 61 million – paid via EURATOM – for this work and has released a detailed guide of the research topics it will favour in grant applications.…
FRANCE ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening the French government with massive daily recurring fines if it continues to ignore a European Court of Justice ruling that it abandons its tax discrimination against Virginia-type tobacco, most of which is imported.…
ECJ DESIGNATION CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has dismissed claims that European law allows governments to automatically ban the use in wine brands of geographical designations that are not specifically protected because of concerns that they may mislead consumers into thinking vintages are from traditional wine-making regions.…
EIB LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending Euro 300 million to CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to finance the final phase of construction of its new Large Hadron Collider. The loan will also help to set up instrumentation to record and analyse the facility’s high-energy particle collisions.…
CRYSTAL PALACE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to take action against the UK government at the European Court of Justice over the failure of south-east London’s Bromley Council to require an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) prior to granting planning permission in 1998 for a massive commercial development of Crystal Palace.…
NON-ROAD MACHINERY
BY ALAN OSBORN
NEW legislation to reduce pollution from tractors, construction equipment and other non-road machinery has been proposed by the European Commission which said that all future diesel engines would have to be equipped with particulate filters using low sulphur fuel.…
RUSSIA SHEET STEEL DUTY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the reimposition of definitive anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of grain oriented cold-rolled sheets (GOES) and strips of silicon-electrical steel with a width or more than 500 mm from Russia.…
NORWAY - SALMON DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that three Norwegian companies be exempted from the European Union’s (EU) anti-dumping and countervailing duties on farmed Norway salmon, agreeing that they are new exporters untainted by past allegations of dumping. They are Vestmar AS, Gaia Seafood AS and Polar Quality AS.…