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BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEMBER governments of the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have adopted international guidelines designed to limit the impact of deep-sea fishing on species at risk of being over-fished. The rules would apply for fishing vessels working in international waters and they call on international fishery organisations to ensure deep sea fisheries are "rigorously managed".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid alert system for contaminated food and feed (RASFF) has warned that nuts imported into the EU are still commonly contaminated with aflatoxins. It reported in August British customs seizures of groundnuts from India containing the toxin; Greek seizures of Chinese peanut kernels with aflatoxins; and Germany blocking an Iranian pistachio nuts cargo for the same reason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission report has declared as successful the new system of European Union inspections of honey from Northern Cyprus, enabling honey to be exported from the Turkish to the Greek sector of the divided island. The independent inspectors were appointed this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid alert system for contaminated food and feed (RASFF) has warned nuts imported into the EU are still commonly contaminated with aflatoxins. It reported in August British customs seizures of groundnuts (and fine corn meal) from India, plus peanut butter from Ghana, containing the toxin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission report has declared as successful the new system of European Union inspections of honey, potatoes, citrus fruits and fish products from Northern Cyprus, enabling honey to be exported from the Turkish to the Greek sector of the divided island.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 2.4 million Greece government loan guarantee rescue package for Greek fibre yarns producer Varvaressos has been approved by the European Commission. Varvaressos suffered high losses and declines in turnover during 2007, and its debts now surpass its capital by a third, preventing it financing its own recovery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOREIGN European Union (EU) drivers in an accident in Greece are insufficiently protected by Greek insurance laws, the European Commission has concluded. It is taking Greece to the European Court of Justice, to force it to enact the EU’s fifth motor insurance directive which guarantees policy holder rights and improves the protection of accident victims.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENVIRONMENTAL health officers think they are helping keep people fit and well by reducing pollution and food disease. But maybe the best move the cold, rheumatism and asthma sufferers of Britain can make to be healthy is emigrate to a Greek island, sunbathe (moderately) and eat fish, vegetables and olive oil.…

By Alan Osborn

Greece has violated EU laws by maintaining rights that give the state-owned electricity company Public Power Corporation (PPC) quasi-exclusive access to lignite, the cheapest source of electricity in the country, said the European Commission. Brussels said Greece had infringed Article 86 of the EC Treaty, which ensures the application of competition laws to public corporations, and Article 82, which prohibits abuse of a dominant market position.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government has opposed Polish government proposals for introducing export refunds to promote European Union (EU) pigmeat sales abroad, despite recent London demonstrations by UK pork producers. Around 200 pig rearers picketed the 10 Downing Street residence of prime minister Gordon Brown earlier this month, protesting at low prices paid by supermarkets.…