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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has confirmed it is scrapping sugar production quotas across the European Union (EU) in 2015 when proposing a comprehensive reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There have been calls from some member states and MEPs for the quota regime to be renewed, but the Commission has stuck to its guns and will continue with abolition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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Times may still be tough in its home British market, but M&S showed forward-thinking foresight in 2011- on sourcing transparency and the environment: potential key issues for future consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has drafted a plan ensuring cash-strapped international nuclear fusion project ITER would have funding of Euro EUR2.573 billion from 2014 to 2018. European Union (EU) ministers in December approved emergency spending for ITER to see the France-based research project through 2012 and 2013, and now the Commission is looking ahead for four more years’ money.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, LENA SMIRNOVA and KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA’S personal care product industry is bracing itself for tougher overseas competition following the accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), anointed at a December 15-17 WTO ministerial meeting in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and KATHERINE DUNN

THE TECHNICAL director of European Industrial Minerals Association IMA-Europe has warned that the impending accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) may not be a bonanza for European bulk mineral importers, although it could help buyers of high value minerals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN steel makers are having doubts about the anticipated agreement allowing Russia to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), fearing a boom in exports of Russia rolled steel into the European Union (EU). Imports of coils, heavy plate, other flat products, alloyed products, alloyed quarto plates, alloyed cold-rolled and coated sheets, long products, beams, wire rods and other long products are currently capped by an EU quota of 3.2 million tonnes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN business, traditional security is all about keeping the bad guys out – stopping them stealing your money and property: intellectual and physical. And so it has been with telecommunications and Internet security. Companies have tried to protect their computers, telephones and other electronic communications devices from cybercriminals, unit by unit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EU food producers organisation COPA-COGECA has welcomed the likely accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), following a weekend deal over membership struck with Georgia over the weekend. This was the last key obstacle preventing Russia joining the WTO, hopefully at a Geneva ministerial meeting, December 15-17.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Spirits Organisation (CEPS) has welcomed the likely accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), following the deal struck with Georgia over the weekend. This was the last key obstacle preventing Russia’s membership being approved, hopefully at a WTO ministerial meeting at Geneva, December 15-17.…

BY PETER DA COSTA

RUSSIA’S reform of its air traffic management systems were welcomed at an European Union (EU)-Russia aviation conference in Brussels on December 2. Philippe Lievin, market manager for Indiana-based avionics company Rockwell Collins, stressed difficulties had been created form European and Russian civil aviation by Russia’s sometime antiquated ATC systems.…