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BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROMANIAN customs officers participating in an international anti-smuggling action have seized 20 tonnes of undocumented perfume from a lorry – containing scents in Gucci, Versace, Calvin Klein, Chanel and other packaging. The raid was coordinated with other actions across Europe by European Union anti-fraud unit OLAF.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OFFICIALS from the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF have revealed to just-drinks how an international EU customs operation seized 6,400 litres of counterfeit and smuggled alcohol. OLAF said the Matthew II operation was organised by the Czech Republic, working closely with Poland and OLAF: all EU countries were invited to participate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner will have reassured liberalisers with a clear commitment today that he supports scrapping restrictive EU dairy production quotas in 2015. Romanian Dacian Ciolo?’ appointment came amidst mutterings in Brussels, London and elsewhere that he might reinstate dairy quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ANCA GURZU and DAVID HAWORTH

THE CONFECTIONERY manufacturing sector in the European Union (EU) has a new political boss in the shape of Romania’s Dacian Ciolo?, who became the EU’s latest agriculture Commissioner on February 10. Appointed amidst pledges he would be willing to use EU money to guarantee food production, he has promised to undertake a swift review of the EU’s reformed sugar regime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner who took office on Wednesday (Feb 10) has asked the food industry for views on reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Romanian Dacian Ciolo? told a meeting of EU food producers’ organisation COPA-COGECA yesterday (Thursday) he had no detailed blueprint for the CAP after 2013.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has now approved a Euro 400 million loan to Ford Romania to help it expand and modernise its Craiova assembly plant, tooling it for building a small car model. Ford is already assembling Transit Connect vans at Craiova, and production is expected to increase this year thanks to the expansion.…

BY MARK ROWE

MOLDOVA would appear to fit the description of a far away country about which the world knows nothing. But its location, adjacent to Romania, (one of the two most recent European Union (EU) member states, Ukraine, the Black Sea and the disputed, politically uncertain region of Transnistria (which remains formally part of Moldovan territory, while its government has little authority there), is extremely familiar, and favoured, by counterfeit cigarette producers and traffickers.…

BY ANCA GURZU AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROMANIAN government has promised to introduce a special tax on junk food – a world first, it claims. A communiqué from the country’s health ministry said: "The new tax will represent 1% from all fast-food sales, and the funds we will collect will help contribute to the country’s health programmes…" Officials had told the ministry’s nutrition commission "to establish the exact details of this concept", and officials will be consulting with drinks producers, importers and retailers.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

EFFORTS to boost food producers in their frequent quarrels with big-time retail chains have been promised by the European Union’s (EU) agriculture Commissioner-designate Dacian Ciolo? when he appeared before European Parliament lawmakers.

Speaking in a confirmation hearing in Brussels, he said he wanted "to improve the negotiating position" of food producers when dealing with large retailers: "I want to see a better dialogue between the various actors in the food chain.…

BY ANCA GURZU

THE ROMANIAN government has promised to introduce a special levy on soft drinks, in what it hails as the world’s first junk food tax. A communiqué from the country’s health ministry on Tuesday (5/1) said: "The new tax will represent 1% from all fast-food sales, and the funds we will collect will help contribute to the country’s health programmes…" It said health minister Attila Czeke had told the ministry’s nutrition commission "to establish the exact details of this concept", and officials will be consulting with drinks producers, importers and retailers.…