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EU WTO ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW EFSA BOSS BUDGET ROW – LATEST ADVICE
THE FRENCHWOMAN appointed to take the vacant top executive director job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will need all her political skills to solve a potential budget crisis facing the agency.…
EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SUGAR GLUT ACTION CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Sweden, have pressed the European Commission to reduce European Union (EU) sugar production quotas by 10% for 2006/7, because of a pan-EU 2 million sugar surplus generated in 2005/6. Germany said current intervention stocks should continue to be stored to protect prices.…
EUROBAROMETER FOOD POLL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN European Union (EU) consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%. As usual with culturally diverse Europe, however, there were wide national variations.…
BIRD FLU POULTRY PRODUCTION PRICE FALL FEARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.
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BELGIUM DIOXIN OUTBREAK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and the Belgian Federal Food Chain Security Agency are investigating the contamination of animal feed with poisonous dioxins, some exported to Germany and the Netherlands. Hundreds of farms have been closed in the alert, caused by defective filters at Belgian chemical producer Tessenderlo Chemie.…
ECJ ROCHE PHARMACEUTICAL PATENT CASE
BY ALAN OSBORN
Legal action by and against drugs firms over patent infringement in the EU will become much more expensive and cumbersome if a preliminary ruling by an advocate general at the European Court of Justice is upheld by the full court (likely but not certain).…
SUBSUBSIDIARY CAPITAL DUTY TAXATION NETHERLANDS GERMANY BRITAIN ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states should not levy capital duties on subsidiaries, when a parent company boosts the capital of a sub-subsidiary, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. It said that although such financial transfers might boost the share value of a subsidiary, this is merely "an automatic and incidental economic repercussion", not a "second separate contribution which could…be subject to tax".…
UNDERGROUND WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEMS VACUUM TECHNOLOGY SWEDEN BRITAIN
BY DEIRDRE MASON
IN the next few weeks, contracts are expected to be signed for the UK debut of a pioneering underground waste collection system that can also build recycling into the operation from the outset. If it proves successful here, it could see a marked reduction in the bulky collection banks that are such a feature of today’s built environment.…
PLASTIC BAGS CARTEL FINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined 16 firms Euro 290.71 million for operating a cartel in the plastic industrial bags market, in clear violation of European Union (EU) fair trade rules. One British participant – British Polythene Industries PLC – escaped being penalised, along with Belgium’s Combipac BV, however, after they tipped off the Commission about the cartel, which covered Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Spain.…
BIRD FLU POULTRY PRODUCTION PRICE FALL FEARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.
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