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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a regulation guaranteeing European Union (EU) air travellers rights when denied boarding by airlines to overbooked flights. The law insists airlines and tour operators first call for volunteers to surrender seats in exchange for agreed advantages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY part of the European Union-funded programme to create a Serbian Agency for Medical Products (MPA) has been fulfilled, with the completion of a new Euro 300,000 headquarters building for the 150 staff organisation. Opened by Serbian Health Minister, Dr Tomica Milosavljevic (SPELLING IS CORRECT), it is expected to be fully furnished and operating within two months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farms that have to slaughter their whole stock because of disease are not automatically entitled to compensation under European Union law, the European Court of Justice has ruled. In a ruling likely to be controversial in aquaculture, the court has said that a complete cull should not be regarded as an illegal attack on the property rights of fish farmers, even though such a slaughter would be mandatory under EU legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farms that have to slaughter their whole stock because of disease are not automatically entitled to compensation under European Union law, the European Court of Justice has ruled. In a ruling likely to be controversial in aquaculture, the court has said that a complete cull should not be regarded as an illegal attack on the property rights of fish farmers, even though such a slaughter would be mandatory under EU legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN fish products are imported into Europe, and processed, when can they be marketed as European fish products? The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has been asked to rule on whether the defrosting, heading, filleting, boning, trimming, salting and packing of fish imported frozen whole from outside the European Economic Area (the EU, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) creates a product under European law sufficiently different to be considered of European origin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA, Canada and Argentina have requested a WTO disputes panel be established to rule on the EU’s de facto five-year freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs. The three countries claim it is illegal under world trade law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is resisting proposed reforms to European Union business law on cross-border non-contractual civil disputes, which would insist that the country of a complainant provides the courts charged with making a judgement. The ICC fears that such a law – designed to breed consumer confidence in cross-border retail sales – would scare businesses from selling into foreign markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have been asked to widen rules leading to eggs being stamped with their producers’ identity code and farming methods from January 2004. The European Commission wants them expanded to producers selling their eggs in public markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD products sold in stores across the European Union with labelling claiming lines are ‘fat-free,’ ‘light’ or ‘high-fibre’ will be manufactured according to strict scientific rules under a new directive proposed by the European Commission. The legislation would ban vague pledges that a foodstuff boosts immunity, energy, concentration and happiness unless such claims can be proved, sometimes according to set EU-wide criteria.…

Keith Nuthall
THE PURCHASE of adequate accident coverage for all passenger ships operating in European Union waters should become mandatory under proposed EU legislation from the European Commission; it implements last year’s updating of the International Maritime Organisation’s Athens convention on passenger ferries, which limits the liability of a carrier for death or injury involving a traveller to around US$325,000 per passenger.…