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SERIOUS concerns were raised today at the European Parliament over the impending abolition of European Union (EU) milk production quotas, as dairy prices continue to fall. A special hearing on the future of the industry heard (on Tuesday January 27) how the sector had been taken by surprise in the past year by production increases and export market losses through Russia’s embargo.…

After the recent announcement from the Spanish government that the country was finally exiting its five-year long economic downturn, book retailers were looking to the country’s long Christmas period for the proof of the pudding. Gift giving here traditionally takes place on January – the day of Epiphany – so the festive purchase period is longer than in many other countries.…

BEEF producers in Uruguay are emerging as the most progressive and successful in Latin America with a universal system for electronically tracking cattle and a continued surge in exports.

The country’s accumulated exports of beef products for 2014 (up to December 6) reached 229,907 tonnes – an increase of 5,750 tonnes compared to the same period in 2013, according to the National Meat Institute (Instituto Nacional de Carnes – INAC), which monitors and promotes the meat industry.…

MEXICAN inspectors have visited 15 meat businesses in Spain as trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Mexico raise the prospect of greater exports to the Latin American country.

Mexico is already the main non-EU market for Spanish cured, cooked and preserved pork products and hopes are high that pork meat will be included in any deal with the EU.…

ALMOST two years since its establishment in January 2013, the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) created as part of Europol, has delivered on its objectives, but still faces numerous resource challenges. Set up by the European Commission to support the 28 European Union (EU) countries in cybercrime investigations targeting online intrusion, fraud and child sexual abuse and to disrupt the operations of organised crime networks that commit a large share of cybercrimes, the EC3 is now receiving more requests for support that it can handle, its head, Troels Oerting, told Fraud Intelligence.…

The Spanish cosmetics industry has welcomed a free trade deal struck between the European Union (EU) and Ecuador, which is set to benefit European cosmetics producers with increased market access in thus South American market. An EU communiqué noted that the agreement will “provide improved access to the Ecuadorian market for many key EU exports,” adding: “it will also create a stable and predictable environment that will help boost and diversify trade and investment.”…

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro EUR50 million to Spanish pharmaceutical company Grupo Ferrer Internacional SA, to help it fund a EUR116 million’s worth of scheduled research and development. Studies that would receive financing if the EIB board of directors approves the plan includes medicines to treat central nervous system problems, infections and inflammatory diseases, oncology, diagnostics, plus cardiovascular, respiratory conditions.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a further four European Union (EU)-funded marketing programmes promoting sales of EU-produced meat, within member states and abroad. These are in addition to the Euro EUR7.7 million programme promoting lamb sales run by British beef and lamb levy body Eblex, Ireland’s Bord Bía, France’s Interbev, announced earlier this week.…

Spain’s meat industry has formally requested that its government’s agriculture ministry asks the European Union (EU) to award EU geographical indication (PGI) status to jamón serrano (dry-cured, mountain ham). The Confederation of Spanish Meat Organisations (Confecarne) and the Spanish Serrano Ham Foundation (FJSE) are seeking the legal protections that PGI status would bring.…

THE EUROPEAN Parliament on Wednesday (8 October) voted to accept the Spanish commissioner-designate Miguel Arias Cañete for the climate and energy portfolio after a week of uncertainty. However, it rejected the former Slovenian prime-minister Alenka Bratušek as vice-president for the energy union in the new European Commission due to take office on November 1.…