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EASTERN EUROPEAN WINES AND SPIRITS GET PROTECTION IN WEALTHY SWISS MARKET



BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REVISED food and drink trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland will provide wines and spirits from the 12 countries joining the EU since 2004 with key geographical indication protection in key Swiss export markets.…

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EFSA STUDY MARRED BY STATISTICAL ANOMALIES



BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW system of gathering food health data across the European Union (EU) appears to have marred an annual comparative study from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), with Britain’s data collection being indirectly criticised.

While the UK appears to have received a relative clean bill of health regarding food-related illnesses, statistical anomalies probably explain the results, with Britain supplying insufficient information.…

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BRUSSELS GRANTS PROTECTION TO POLISH BISCUITS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted European Union (EU) geographical indication protection to the traditional Polish biscuits ‘Andruty kaliskie’. In future these sweet bakery products cannot be sold under this name in the EU unless they are made by specific traditional methods within their historic home region – the central Poland city of Kalisz.…

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EU AND USA BURY HATCHET OVER BEEF HORMONE ROW



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE IMMINENT threat of heavy USA tariffs on many European Union (EU) processed food exports has been lifted, after Washington and Brussels struck a preliminary deal over the long-running beef hormone dispute. Retaliatory duties such as a 300% duty on French cheese Roquefort were to be levied from this week, but have now been suspended.…

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EU CONFECTIONERY ESCAPE DUTY AXE THROUGH ELEVENTH HOUR DEAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE IMMINENT threat of heavy USA tariffs on many European Union (EU) confectionery exports has been lifted, after Washington and Brussels struck a preliminary deal over the long-running beef hormone dispute. Retaliatory duties such as 100% duties on filled chocolate, chewing gum, raspberry and lingonberry jams were to have been levied this month (May), but have now been suspended, along with other EU food products earmarked for new tariffs, such as fruit juices from Austria, Cyprus, France and Poland.…

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BRUSSELS ADMINISTERS COUP DE GRACE TO MOTHBALLED POLISH AUTO PARTS PRODUCER



BY E. BLAKE BERRY

IT looks as though Buczek Automotive’s fate is sealed. The firm, a Polish producer of pipes for the auto industry, has been little more than a husk since June of last year, and industry experts say there is now no hope that it will return to the market.…

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EU SUGAR RESTRUCTURING FUNDS WILL BE HELD OVER



BY KEITH NUTHALL

MONEY left unspent from a temporary restructuring fund for the European Union sugar sector after its fourth and final year of operation (financial year 2009-10) will be transferred to future EU budgets, earmarked for sugar-related investments, the European Commission has confirmed.…

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ICELAND AND NORWAY ARE EFFICIENT MEMBERS OF SCHENGEN ZONE - DESPITE LACK OF INFLUENCE OVER ITS RULES



BY MARK ROWE

THE AIRPORTS of Norway and Iceland are well suited to dealing with the impact of border-free travel with each other and many member states of the European Union (EU), having joined the EU’s frontierless Schengen-zone in 1999, abolished all border checks for travel to member countries in December 2001.…

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RUSSIAN FEARS MAKE EASTERN EUROPEANS INTO GAS LIBERALISERS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DELICATE state of European Union (EU) and Russia diplomatic and energy relations has been illustrated starkly by the inclusion of eastern European gas interconnection projects within the European economic stimulus package. National governments of these new EU member states threatened to torpedo the entire agreement – seen as the lynchpin of European efforts to shake off the recession – if their gas schemes were not included.…

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EU ROUND UP - ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE DEAL STRUCK BY EU HEADS OF GOVERNMENT



BY KEITH NUTHALL

DOCUMENTS released by European Union (EU) heads of government detailing their approval of a Euro 3.9 billion in EU spending on energy investment projects includes a commitment to spend Euro 200 million on the Nabucco gas pipeline within Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and Romania.…

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