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BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOPES that the departure of former French president Jacques Chirac from the Élysée Palace would help create an opening for the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round have been dashed. New president Nicolas Sarkozy told northern France producers that he would insist on guaranteed subsidies protecting French meat and other specialities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched a research project – called EuroMedCitrusNet – aimed at reducing the transfer of pathogens from citrus fruits, through processing into final food and drink products, such as juice. Researchers will look at processing chains amongst key Mediterranean suppliers, boosting training and technology, while increasing small and medium-sized citrus fruit business participation in food safety research.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
As with many financial service providers in the EU, the definition of financial adviser differs, often significantly, from one country to another. In its very basic sense – i.e. the provision of financial advice pure and simple, without the add-on of other services that could involve the handling of client money – the profession of fee-paid advisor is a limited one and probably confined to only a few thousand people in Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) environment Commissioner will push ahead with legal action after EU member states continued to de-list bathing areas from officially-approved beaches subject to cleanliness tests, especially in Mediterranean holiday spots about to be flooded with British holidaymakers.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
RELATIVELY little is known about ethnic specificities in adolescent skin, although the research division of French luxury products group Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) is focusing a high percentage of its efforts on understanding modifications in the skin as young people change from being children to adolescence and adulthood.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FRENCH tobacco market is astir and it’s quite possible that such iconic brands as Gitanes and Gauloise, part of the Franco-Spanish Altardis group with some 30% of the French cigarette market, will no longer be independently owned by the year-end.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IDEA that lipsuctioned fat can be processed and turned into useful adult stem cells, able to mutate and regenerate damaged skin, muscle and sinew, is gathering support, with a Norwegian team claiming chemical markers present in cells can identify those with healing properties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW fishing access deal has been negotiated between the European Commission and the Ivory Coast. Running six years from this June, the agreement is designed to replace an existing deal in place since 1990. The new deal will focus entirely on tuna, wIth European Union (EU) fishing rights being cut from an existing 9,000 to 7,000 tonnes per year, to be exploited by 25 seiners and 15 surface long liners, (down from 34 and up from 11 respectively under the existing system).The…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUCCESSFUL trials of a new European Union (EU) satellite navigation service for civil aviation have been staged at Limoges airport, France. An ATR42 test plane has utilised signals from the European Space Agency (ESA), Eurocontrol and European Commission-launched European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) for approaches and landings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRINKS advertising for products free from designation of origin systems can in principle compare their qualities to other drinks regulated under appellation rules, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.

However, such advertising or labelling “must not take unfair advantage of the reputation of a trade mark, trade name or other distinguishing marks of a competitor or of the designation of origin,” said judges.…