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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added six Portuguese sausages (chouriço, paia and morcelo), a French anchovy and melon, plus an Italian salami, to the European Union’s (EU) list of protected geographical designations: Anchois de Collioure Melon Quercy and Salame d’oca di Mortara.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added six traditional Portuguese meat products to the European Union’s (EU) register of protected geographical indications. They are sausages Chouriço de Carne de Estremoz e Borba, Chouriço grosso de Estremoz e Borba, Paia de Toucinho de Estremoz e Borba, Paia de Lombo de Estremoz e Borba and Paia de Estremoz e Borba; and Morcela de Estremoz e Borba.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is granting Portugal’s Comissão de Viticultura da Região dos Vinhos Verdes (CVRVV) Euro 882,320 over three years to help promote its products within the European Union (EU). Matching funding will come from the Portuguese government and the Comissão itself, making the programme’s total budget Euro 1.76 million.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is granting Portugal’s Comissão de Viticultura da Região dos Vinhos Verdes (CVRVV) Euro 882,320 over three years to help promote its products within the European Union (EU). Matching funding will come from the Portuguese government and the Comissão itself, taking the programme’s total budget to Euro 1.76 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved an agreement with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which will guarantee access to its fishing grounds for Italian, French, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish fishermen until June 2006. The deal involves the Guinea Bissau government being granted Euro 7.26 million a year in financial compensation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUBLIC procurement rules telling Portuguese utilities to conduct open tenders for their purchases are illegal under European Union (EU) law, the European Commission is claiming. As a result, it is threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has the power to order Portugal to comply.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the European Union (EU) signed up to an Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) last Uruguay Round that foresaw the scrapping of import quotas at the start of 2005, it is hard to imagine it viewing the deal as a way to boost production in knitted products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the woeful record of the British food industry regarding health, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, a new survey has suggested. Comparing UK attitudes to those in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal, when asked if they felt 12 food products were “very safe” to eat, British consumers were the most optimistic in every case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the flawed health record of the British meat industry, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, a new survey has suggested. Comparing the UK with Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal, British consumers were most likely to consider 12 foodstuffs “very safe”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the woeful record of the British food industry regarding health, Britain’s food consumers are the most trusting in Europe, a new survey has suggested. Comparing UK attitudes to those in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Portugal, when asked if they felt 12 food products were “very safe” to eat, British consumers were the most optimistic in every case.…