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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might be able to deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out that we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

Alan Osborn
1) The European Commission has set aside 443 million euros for the

restructuring and conversion of vineyards in the 2003/04 marketing year.

As usual, the cash will be shared out among member states according to

their share of the total EU area under vines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Aviation Safety Agency has appointed its first Executive Director. He is Patrick Goudou, of France, an armaments engineer, currently director of the Aeronautical Maintenance Service of his country’s General Delegation for Armaments, where he has spent most of his career.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FORMAL state aid inquiry has been launched by the European Commission into a system of compulsory levies on the meat industry in France; Brussels fears it could illegally and unfairly favour the local sale of French-reared meat and livestock, disadvantaging both EU imports and exports from France.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Austria and Finland to the European Court of Justice for failing to adopt an older (and looser) directive on GM food. This includes rules on post-marketing monitoring, public information, plus labelling and traceability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE deal over third party access to gas pipelines has been agreed between German joint venture BEB and the European Commission, leading to Brussels closing its competition investigation into the company’s refusal to allow Norway’s Marathon to pump gas into its infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JOINT venture – involving Germany’s BASF and French group Glon Sanders – producing animal feed additives and premixes in France, has been approved by the European Commission. It said the initiative “does not raise any competition concerns” in relevant markets.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…