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RAPEX REPORTS MORE SAFETY BANS OF COSMETIC PRODUCTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) product safety network RAPEX has reported a series of EU market withdrawals of personal care products because they contain substances banned under the EU cosmetics directive:
*Estonia banned two lines of Turkish nail polish Mirra lux for including dibutyl phthalate (6.17% by weight);
*Ivory Coast-made whitening cream Lightening Beauty Crème has been withdrawn from the Irish market for containing hydroquinone (3.8%); and
*Portugal has blocked the sale of Italian hair colouring cream Color Contrast for containing the banned substance m-phenylenediamine.…
AS CONSOLIDATION LOOMS FOR CHINA'S DAIRY SECTOR COMPETITION IS INTENSIFYING
BY MARK GODFREY
A BILLION people watched recently when China’s top two dairy companies Yili and Mengniu took the prime slot Chinese television advertisements immediately after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics Games. Being onscreen for the most important TV event in modern Chinese history is a sign of how fast dairy has grown in a land accustomed to soy milk.…
L'ORÉAL WINS PARALLEL TRADING CASE AT EFTA COURT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) product safety network RAPEX has reported a series of EU market withdrawals of personal care products because they contain substances banned under the EU cosmetics directive:
*Estonia banned two lines of Turkish nail polish Mirra lux for including dibutyl phthalate (6.17% by weight);
*Ivory Coast-made whitening cream Lightening Beauty Crème has been withdrawn from the Irish market for containing hydroquinone (3.8%); and
*Portugal has blocked the sale of Italian hair colouring cream Color Contrast for containing the banned substance m-phenylenediamine.…
ECJ JUDGES CENSURE IRELAND OVER DIRTY WATER EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for breaking the urban waste water directive by discharging dirty sewage in the communities of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo, and Tramore. Judges agreed with the European Commission that the Irish government should have subjected this waste water to secondary treatment.…
IRISH MEAT DEAL ILLEGAL UNDER COMPETITION LAW SAYS ECJ JUDGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ADVOCATE general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that an Irish initiative designed to reduce over-capacity in Ireland’s beef processing sector breaks European Union (EU) competition law.
In a formal opinion, Verica Trstenjak found illegal the operation of Ireland’s Beef Industry Development Society Ltd (BIDS), which was formed in 2002 to unite most of the country’s processors – accounting for 93% of beef sold in the country.…
ECJ JUDGES CENSURE IRELAND OVER DIRTY WATER EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for breaking the urban waste water directive by discharging dirty sewage in the communities of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo, and Tramore. Judges agreed with the European Commission that the Irish government should have subjected this waste water to secondary treatment.…
IRELAND'S EU FISHING SUBSIDIES REDUCED FOR 2007-13
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its operational programme for the European Fisheries Fund in Ireland, announcing that the European Union (EU) would be spending Euro 42.2 million on the Irish fishing sector from 2007-13. The EU spending is a significant reduction from the Euro 70 million spent in Ireland under the old Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance from 2000-2006.…
Confronting problems multilaterally can be less than effective
By Eric Lyman in Rome
There are problems in the world that cannot be confronted with any success by a single state, no matter how powerful. Big environmental issues and world hunger and poverty immediately come to mind, along with many regional peacekeeping needs and most economic and trade-related problems.
Enter multilateralism, the consensus-driven process that democratically pulls countries together for collective problem solving, usually under the auspices of an umbrella organisation such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organisation.
Multilateralism has been hailed as the natural evolution from the bipolar world order that marked the period after World War II – with influence split between the camps of US and the Soviet Union – and the unipolar order based on the power and influence of the US since the end of the Cold War.…
TOBACCO INDUSTRY SHOULD BE BLACKBALLED FROM HEALTH NEGOTIATIONS - HEARING SUGGESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH campaigners pressed politicians at a European Parliament hearing in Brussels to exclude the tobacco industry from debates where it could influence public health policies. Hosted by Irish Fine Gael MEP Avril Doyle and pressure group the Smoke Free Partnership, the hearing was addressed by new EU health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou and attended by other senior MEPs.…
BRITAIN AND IRELAND SIGN FUNCTIONAL AIRSPACE BLOCK DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and Ireland have become the first European countries to sign an agreement creating a cross-border functional airspace block. The deal allows airlines to liaise with one set of air-traffic controllers when crossing Irish and British airspace, with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) working with Britain’s Air Traffic Control Service (NATS).…