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ENLARGEMENT - BYRNE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 10 EASTERN and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) last weekend are on course to meeting its food health standards, Brussels’ health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has claimed. His confident declaration masks a series of problems, however, leading to many temporary exemptions and special measures, giving the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Malta, and Slovenia; the countries between three months and three years extra time to ensure slaughterhouses and food processing plants meet standards that should have been in place on May 1.…

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POLAND - CHINA



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLISH government has withdrawn its complaint against China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that an increase in imports of Chinese footwear was of such a level to break China’s WTO’s accession agreement. It means scheduled formal talks will not take place in Geneva.…

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POLAND - LOW DUTY



BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND has formally asked the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers if it can lower the VAT rate it charges on shoe repairs, taking advantage of a right extended to all member states, following its accession to the EU on May 1.…

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BORDER INSPECTIONS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
WESTERN European animal health specialists will help man the new external border posts of the European Union (EU) while 10 eastern and southern European countries join the continental bloc in May. These veterinary experts will advise their new member country counterparts on administering EU animal and animal product health laws in the weeks before and after accession.…

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POLAND DELAYS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND is pressing the European Commission for at least three months grace in implementing European Union (EU) food hygiene standards after joining the EU in May. Agriculture minister Wojciech Olejniczak has asked EU health commissioner David Byrne to allow around 300 food processing plants – many handling meat – to continue operating while implementing health reforms.…

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TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN has been given a relatively clean bill of health in the latest Transparency International corruption rankings, being viewed as joint-11th least-corrupt country in the world, sharing its billing with Canada and Luxembourg. Finland was the most honest place in which to do business said the pressure group’s survey, followed by Iceland and the Denmark plus New Zealand at joint third.…

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WHEY PLASTIC



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded research consortium is developing an industrial system for producing biodegradable plastics from whey, separated from milk curd during cheese-making. Around 30 per cent of the 50 million tonnes of whey produced in Europe annually is currently discarded, and the Euro 1.6 million WHEYPOL project is creating process to synthesise polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) generated from whey into plastic.…

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EASTERN EUROPE



BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
ACCESS rights to drive across ecologically-sensitive Alpine passes in Switzerland and Austria – plus to Bulgaria and Romania – are being granted to hauliers from the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) in May.…

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EU COAL REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVELY gloomy forecast for the future of the European Union (EU) coal industry has been issued by the European Commission, underlining its determination to press for closures of most unprofitable mines to trim Brussels’ and Member States’ state aid budgets.…

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US BIRD FLU



BY PHILIP FINE

HONG Kong, China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea are among 18 countries restricting US poultry imports, after four American states – Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas – discovered cases of a new variant of bird flu.…

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