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EUROPEAN Union (EU) meat demand and production are expected to recover this year, after two years of decline in EU pork and beef supplies, the European Commission predicted yesterday (March 5). In its Winter 2014 Short-Term Agricultural Outlook, the Commission said: “Meat consumption is expected to increase in the short run, thanks to improvements in the economy and of meat availability.”…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states yesterday (Wednesday) approved detailed restrictions on the handling of pigs and pigmeat in border areas of Poland and Lithuania to try and prevent the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF). Veterinary officials have this year confirmed four cases in districts close to Belarus, sparking a Russian pigmeat import ban that has been roundly criticised as an overreaction by the EU.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission and the Lithuanian government are considering backing significant hunting and trapping campaigns to reduce wild boar numbers in regions where these animals have contracted African Swine Fever.

They have asked the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to investigate the idea, with Lithuania also asking for advice on using fencing and organised feeding to control boar movements.…

The Swedish government is to discuss “practical” initiatives to support Sweden’s high cost pig farming sector which is struggling to compete with cheaper imported pigmeat products. The promise of “strategic support” followed meetings between the rural affairs minister Eskil Erlandsson and agri-organisations the Swedish animal farmers association (Sveriges Djurbönder) and the Federation of Swedish Farmers (FSA/Förbundet Sveriges Arbetsterapeuter) in Stockholm on Tuesday (February 25).…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has intensified its diplomatic struggle with Russia over Moscow’s import ban on European Union (EU) pigmeat exports, tightening health controls on Russian and Belarus livestock lorries entering the EU.

It has passed a regulation, using its own powers, insisting on “appropriate cleansing and disinfection of all ‘livestock vehicles’ which have transported live animals and feed and which enter the Union from Russia and Belarus…” And the new law insists that “such cleansing and disinfection is to be properly documented.”…

A RUSSIAN ban on European pork imports is having serious consequences, the European Union (EU) health Commissioner Tonio Borg warned last night (Monday) in Brussels. “The price of meat in Europe is going down and the price of meat in Russia is going up”, he told journalists after an EU Council of Ministers agricultural meeting.…

THE REPRESENTATIVES of the European oil and gas industry would like to see one single target to be achieved by the energy sector until 2030 to fight climate change, going against the two targets proposed by the European Commission.

In a major policy paper looking to reduce carbon emission beyond 2020, the European Commission said on January 22 that it would like to set a mandatory GHG emissions reduction target of 40% by 2030, an increase of 20% from the current 2020 target.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of the first joint anti-smuggling operation involving law enforcement and customs officials from all 28 European Union (EU) member states. Coordinated by Lithuania’s customs service and tax inspectorate, which was working with EU anti-fraud office OLAF, the ‘Warehouse’ operation was also the first such EU operation to target excise and VAT fraud specifically, as well as customs fraud.…

THE COUNTRIES of eastern and central Europe that came in from the cold in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall have felt the economic chill in recent years, with recession affecting the fortunes of the cosmetics industry.

Across a wide range of countries – for instance – Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia – the retail value of the beauty and personal care products market has remained at around Euro EUR10.70 billion in both 2012 and (according to provisional data for these five countries by market analysts Euromonitor International) in 2013; and is forecast to grow to EUR10.85 billion in 2014.…

EASTERN and central Europen markets for biocosmetics are a key growth area for personal care product companies, with some markets growing and others relatively untapped.

The region’s largest country, Poland (38 million people) is witnessing sales of bio-cosmetics surging at rates of 10% to 30% annually, according to producers and distributors.…