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EU ROUND UP - BRUSSELS UNVEILS MAJOR GAS INTERCONNECTOR INVESTMENT PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it wants Euro 3.5 billion of the general European Union (EU) economic recovery plan it announced in November spent on energy investment. It has proposed spending Euro 1.75 billion on gas and electricity interconnection projects; Euro 500 million on offshore wind power; and Euro 1.25 billion on carbon capture and storage.…
EU COMMISSION ORDERS EMERGENCY IRISH PORK STORAGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered European Union (EU)-funded emergency storage of up to 30,000 tonnes of healthy Irish pigmeat, following a collapse in demand caused by the country’s dioxin contamination crisis. Brussels will pay for the meat to be stored for up to six months – long enough it hopes for memories of the scandal to fade and Irish pigmeat prices to recover.…
GREEK CHEESE PRODUCERS SWIM IN EU MARKETING CASH, WHILE IRISH MEAT INDUSTRY GETS SMALL CHANGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK cheese industry will receive Euro 2.6 million in marketing subsidies from the European Commission over three years, while the Irish meat sector – under pressure from the dioxin poisoning crisis – receives just Euro 234,000. Other winners included Italian meat producers, with Euro 1.9 million; and Bulgarian dairy producers who scored around Euro 1 million
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GREEK CHEESE PRODUCERS SWIM IN EU MARKETING CASH, WHILE IRISH MEAT INDUSTRY GETS SMALL CHANGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK cheese industry will receive Euro 2.6 million in marketing subsidies from the European Commission over three years, while the Irish meat sector – under pressure from the dioxin crisis – receives just Euro 234,000. In Brussels’ latest announcement this morning of marketing assistance to sell food outside the EU, it is releasing Euro 17.8 million.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP - ARCTIC FISHERIES INITIATIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONTROLLED opening of Arctic fisheries made more accessible because of the steady retreat of polar ice through climate change has been called for in a European Commission policy paper.
It wants "a regulatory framework for [those] Arctic high seas not yet covered by an international conservation and management regime before new fishing opportunities arise," saying no fisheries should be opened for any country until such controls are established.…
EU COMMISSION ORDERS EMERGENCY IRISH PORK STORAGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered European Union (EU)-funded emergency storage of up to 30,000 tonnes of healthy Irish pigmeat, following a collapse in demand caused by the country’s dioxin contamination crisis. Brussels will pay for the meat to be stored for up to six months – long enough it hopes for memories of the scandal to fade and Irish pigmeat prices to recover.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION ACTS TO PROTECT EU CONSUMERS FROM CONTAMINATED IRISH PORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing to order cross-border European Union (EU) restrictions on selling Irish pork and pork products following the discovery of widespread dioxin contamination. Today (Mon Dec 8), Brussels said it would "organise within very short notice" a meeting with food safety authorities of EU countries importing potentially contaminated Irish pork "to share information and to ensure a harmonised enforcement approach."…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP - BALTIC SEA STOCK CONSERVATION MEASURES APPROVED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have formally approved reductions to total allowable catches (TACs) in the Baltic Sea, with the aim of conserving stocks. That said, ministers did not reduce catches to the levels preferred by the European Commission: western Baltic herring catches have been cut by 39%, while Brussels wanted a 63% reduction: the Commission was mollified by a commitment from ministers to establish a long-term management plan for this stock.…
IRELAND REPORTS SKIN CREAM WITHDRAWALS OVER HYDROQUINONE HEALTH CONCERNS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRISH consumer protection authorities have reported the withdrawal of American skin toning cream with vitamin E and sunscreen Clear-n-Smooth, saying its 2% hydroquinone concentration breaks the European Union’s (EU) cosmetics directive. EU product alert service RAPEX also noted the withdrawal from Irish cosmetics shops of Ivory Coast-made lightening body oil Peau Claire over illegal hydroquinone concentrations.…
COD DISCARDS SHOULD BE BANNED - FULL STOP - SAY MEPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a complete ban on discarding cod at sea, with fishing vessels being told to land all cod, helping scientific assessments of stocks. In a formal response to the European Commission’s latest cod recovery plan, MEPs also agreed to the inclusion of the Celtic Sea (south of the Irish Sea) in the cod recovery plan.…