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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has abandoned plans to impose protective safeguard duties on imports from China of frozen strawberries. This follows the withdrawal of a complaint by Poland, the member state that had been pressing for protection. Chinese strawberry producers however could now face an EU anti-dumping duty instead, as an investigation into establishing this potentially permanent tariff barrier has been launched by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) political leaders have agreed medium-term (2007-13) budgets for crucial spending projects for the energy sector: Trans European Networks (TENs) and the EU seventh framework programme (FP7) for research. On TENs, the European Parliament, Commission, and EU Council of Ministers have agreed a Euro 7.2 billion budget, Euro 500 million above previous drafts, although this will have to be split with TENs transport projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE POLISH government has banned sales of Chinese ‘ZhenLiPin’ nail varnish art and striper pens, because they contains dibutyl phthalate (DBP), classified "toxic to reproduction" under European Union (EU) directive 67/548/EEC on dangerous substances. It is also prohibited in cosmetics under the EU cosmetics directive 76/768/EEC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union has abandoned plans to impose protective safeguard duties on imports from China of frozen strawberries, but has started investigating a potentially permanent anti-dumping duty instead.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states have been authorised to levy until January 2011 low rates of VAT on clothing and household linen repair services. The decision continues for four years an experiment that has thus far been renewed annually and which has been exploited by Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands – who have charged 6% VAT on these services and – Greece, which has charged 8%.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has ordered its committees of national officials to stage a "thorough examination" of the official EU definition of vodka, because of a row between member states over its terms. Poland, supported by Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden, is resisting a European Commission proposal to allow vodka to continue being sold in the EU using non-traditional ingredients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRANCE, the Czech Republic and Poland are encouraging the European Commission to obtain sufficiently detailed data on an alleged boom in European Union apple imports to allow temporary protective safeguard duties to be erected, in line with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

There were about 41,600 road deaths in the 25 EU countries in 2005, down from around 50,000 in 2001 reports the European Commission. This is progress "but not enough" says Brussels which wants member states to halve the rate to 25,000 by 2010 under the EU’s Road Safety Action Programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEBATES are continuing in European Union (EU) institutions over whether general vaccination is a safe response to Europe’s growing bird flu problem. With Germany, France, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy all reporting new cases, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved the first vaccination campaigns.…

BY MARK ROWE

THIS year marks the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic steam explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, when a plume of radioactive fallout from Chernobyl-4 drifted over the western parts of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Scandinavia, Britain and the east coast of the United States.…