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EASTERN EUROPE COSMETICS AND PERSONAL CARE INDUSTRY FEATURE



BY MARK ROWE

WHILE personal care product sales for the 15 countries that made up the European Union (EU) before 2003, plus Switzerland and Norway, increased by just 1% in 2005/2006 on the previous year – eastern Europe is a more enticing prospect for the industry, and has been singled out by major organisations and companies as a shining light for sales, investment and production.…

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RASFF WARNS OF AFLATOXIN CONTAMINATION



BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) food safety consumer alert service RASFF has warned of aflatoxin contaminations in imported confectionary ingredients: American almonds in Italy; Turkish hazelnuts, kernels and paste in France, Germany and Italy; and Iranian pistachio nuts in Germany, Spain and Poland, among others.…

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION ACTS AGAINST 'DISCRIMINATORY' POLISH CAR REGISTRATION



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has demanded that the Polish government reforms a sliding scale determining the cost of original registration fees for cars, that hinders fleet managers’ sale of used vehicles. This rate depends on the age of the car, so new cars – made in or imported immediately into Poland – attract the lowest fees, and cars imported into the country when old incur the highest fees.…

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NORTHERN IRISH MEAT BENEFITS FROM EU FOOD MARKETING AID



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LIVESTOCK and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland is to benefit from the latest batch of European Commission grants for promoting meat and other foodstuff sales within the European Union (EU). Brussels will subsidise a Northern Irish meat marketing and information campaign with Euro 207,365 over one year, with matching money being demanded from the UK government and local meat producers, the usual condition of such grants.…

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EFTA COURT TO RULE ON ICELAND STUDENT LOAN RESTRICTIONS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ICELAND government is facing a legal challenge to its restrictive student loans regulations, which the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority considers breaks European Union (EU) freedom of movement rules. These have to be applied in Iceland for EU and EFTA members, because Iceland is in the European Economic Area (EEA), where many EU laws apply.…

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EFSA SALMONELLA LAYING HENS REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ALARMING 20.3% of European Union (EU) laying hen poultry flocks are infected with salmonella, a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) report has warned. The Czech Republic (62.5%), Poland (55.9%), Spain (51.6%), Lithuania (50%) and Portugal (47.7%) have the most serious problems.…

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EU ROUND UP - MAURITANIA, KIRIBATI, MOROCCO FISHING ACCESS DEALS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has renewed its European Union (EU) fishing access deal with Mauritania, initialling a new six year deal that involves a two-year protocol, but which should be renewed twice automatically, unless serious political problems emerge.

Brussels is being bullish about the deal, claiming: "It is the most important fisheries agreement concluded by the EU with a third country both in financial terms and as regards fishing opportunities for EU vessels"

And the agreement does will provide fishing rights for about 200 EU vessels on crustaceans (mainly shrimps), hake and other demersal species), cepaholopods, small pelagics and tuna.…

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GERMANY TOBACCO INDUSTRY FEATURE



BY ALAN OSBORN

IN the space of less than three years the German cigarette market has gone from being Europe’s most stable, profitable and legislation-free into one beset by obstacles almost everywhere you look. In the words of an independent report just issued by the market number two British American Tobacco, the industry has "overnight….found…

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SEWAGE SLUDGE HEAT GENERATOR



STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WELSH sustainable energy firm has proved ‘where there’s muck there’s brass’ by helping build a heat generator for Polish cities, running on sewage sludge. Sustainable energy consultancy ETP Ltd, of Cardiff, worked with Polish manufacturer ABM Solid, of Tarnow, to build a ‘fluidised bed boiler’ heating a wastewater treatment plant at Poland’s Niepolomice.…

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EASTERN EUROPE ELECTRICITY FEATURE -NUCLEAR POWER PHASE OUT CAPACITY REPLACEMENT



BY DEIRDRE MASON

A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…

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