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BY KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN contract packing is often undertaken by larger businesses and of course, packers usually welcome economies of scale, cross-border trades within the European Union (EU) is commonplace within Europe.

And as a result, naturally, keeping on top of EU legislation is essential for contract packing clients and suppliers.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY

DESPITE being one of the regions hardest hit by the global financial crisis and its resulting recession, the cosmetics industry of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) is doing surprisingly well. Although local sales have been under pressure, companies have begun expanding abroad in the last year.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE POTENTIALLY tough issue of regulations on indoor air pollution and all the potential problems this could cause the paint and coatings industry just refuses to go away in Europe. This is despite the fact that 10 months after the groundbreaking EnVIE conference on indoor air quality, held in Brussels last September, there is still no sign of any new Green Paper that might mean a tough new regime for the paint industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Italy to the European Court of Justice for failing to implement the 2006 European Union (EU) statutory audit directive – approved following the country’s notorious Parmalat scandal.

Its implementation deadline was June 2008; its aim – boosting European audit quality.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has now approved revised fishing quotas affecting British fleets, include the right to catch 181,694 tonnes of mackerel from the Atlantic off the UK, Ireland, Norway, the Faroes, Greenland and international mid-Atlantic waters; 16,276 tonnes of horse mackerel from the same zones (except Norwegian seas); and 9,410 tonnes of cod off Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has asked to approve new revised fishing quotas affecting British fleets following talks on the management of north Atlantic stocks. These have involved officials from the EU, Norway, Russia, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

Food commodity prices are seldom out of the news nowadays, due to a mushrooming global population, the food-for-fuel controversy, an increasing focus on sustainability and the continued growth of the organic sector. However, beyond the generality of crop prices spiralling to new highs in 2007 and 2008 and then plummeting – in some cases – back to where they were before the boom, the picture is far from uniform.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened nine case files as it attempts to force European Union (EU) member states to comply with EU accounting and auditing directives. Brussels is taking four briefs to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) regarding Austria, Ireland, Italy and Spain, which it accuses of failing to comply with the 2006 statutory audit directive (2006/43/EC).…

BY MARK ROWE

The expansion of the European Union (EU) continues eastwards – and the food and drink industry of the existing EU will inevitably be affected by the new competition, as will companies in the new member countries.

The next few years are likely to see several countries accede to the EU.…

BY SYMON ROSS

THE SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union) in Ireland expressed concern this month (May) the country’s Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has inadequate resources to carry out workplace inspections.

The union said with 200,000 workplaces in the Republic of Ireland and only around 14,000 workplace assessments annually, a business could wait more than 14 years for a safety check from an HSA inspector.…