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BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN collective wine marketing systems are “insufficient and ill-suited to market requirements compared to those of wine-growing companies in the

new world wine producing countries:” this is one of the main conclusions of a

seminar last week (28 and 29 November) organised by COPA-COGECA, the

association of European agricultural co-operative organisations and the

CEV, Europe’s association for the wine industry and trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HANDLING of dangerous substances at work and fishing are to be priority problems tackled by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in 2003. Unveiling its programme for next year, the Bilbao-based unit’s director Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, said that a European week on dangerous substances would be staged.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HANDLING of dangerous substances at work is to be a key priority problem tackled by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) in 2003. Unveiling its programme for next year, the Bilbao-based unit’s director Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, said that a European week on dangerous substances would be staged.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has developed plans to lend South West Water (SWW) owner the Pennon Group plc up to Euro 60 million to help finance the utility’s 2000-2005 capital expenditure programme for non-environmental schemes. The money would be injected into a string of improvement projects for both water supply and disposal, which are designed to re-balance “supply and demand” and boost “enhanced customer service standards.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STATE aid inquiry has been formally launched by the European Commission into the benefits offered to Ryanair by its first base in mainland Europe, Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium. The Commission says there is a case to answer over advantages provided by the airport, which is controlled by the Walloon regional government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OFFICIALS from the United States and European Union have been meeting to solve differences over the Americans’ Container Security Initiative. The EU and the US have agreed to quickly explore signing a cooperation deal on operating a mutually acceptable container security system, but problems remain, for instance on the proposed US 24 hours rule, requiring carriers to provide American customs with cargo manifest information a day before it is loaded on board a USA-bound vessel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set out its stall at the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation talks, offering the US and other key trading partners the carrot of a 55 per cent cut in “trade distorting domestic farm support” subsidies, if they reciprocate with similar reductions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved in principle new proposed European regulations on the traceability and labelling of genetically modified food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DYNAMIC online forum on European energy policy has been launched by an international consortium; the European Union-funded INTUSER website contains information about current energy issues and questionnaires allowing specialists and the public to contribute to policy debates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the authorisation of a new food additive, hydrogenated poly-1-decene, which Brussels wants cleared for use as a glazing agent in confectionery and dried fruit. The idea is to provide manufacturers with an alternative to the banned white mineral oil other than vegetable oil-based products, which suffer from rancidity and stickiness.…