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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to combine forces with the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the coming year to examine offshore oil and gas safety in the light of the Gulf of Mexico spill.

At an ‘Energy Dialogue’ meeting in Brussels, senior OPEC and EU officials agreed to organise an international roundtable on minimising offshore safety risks early 2011, which could spark new regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s international trade committee has welcomed Turkey reforms to its intellectual property protection of manufactured goods, especially cosmetics. In a detailed motion on the operation of the European Union’s (EU) customs union with Turkey, the committee said: "Counterfeit products, particularly pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, represent a major problem in EU-Turkey trade relations and reduce the attractiveness of Turkey for foreign direct investment."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is lending Russia’s largest glass bottle manufacturer Russian roubles RUB460 million (around Euro EUR12 million) to help reduce its foreign exchange exposure and swap maturing debts for a single longer-term local currency facility.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

CONFECTIONERY manufacturers in the Middle East are not only ideally placed geographically to sell their products to the rich European Union (EU) market, they are assisted by a series of free trade agreements either in place, or in the works.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW European Union (EU) body coordinating around Euro EUR1 billion in food-related research from 20 European countries has started work. The ‘scientific advisory board for the EU joint programming initiative (JPI) on agriculture, food security and climate change’ will plan and manage national food industry research securing future supplies and reducing climate emissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel has refused to set an advisory limit for the intake of sugar by European Union (EU) consumers. EFSA’s panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has concluded in a comprehensive assessment of dietary requirements for EU consumers “there was insufficient evidence to set an upper limit for sugars”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON

AUSTRALIA’S tobacco industry can be expected to put up a strong fight against a federal government proposal to mandate plain paper packaging for its products. And it will doubtless have the support of the international tobacco industry because this planned legislation is a clear test case.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHEN it comes to the power sector, it certainly pays to be green in eastern Europe right now. The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), whose mandate is to bring sustainable development to eastern Europe and central Asia, has been especially active in promoting green energy across the region.…

BY MAKKI MARSEILLES

THE GREEKS – the heaviest smokers in the European Union (EU) and by some counts the world – may start to reduce tobacco consumption significantly, with taxation rising steeply as a result of the country’s ongoing financial crisis.…

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.…