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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe has drawn up a set of standard meat cuts for sheepmeat sold in Europe, to ease confusion amongst exporters and traders faced with such terms as banjo cuts, oyster cuts, spare ribs or tenderloins.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has called for a European organisation spreading expertise on plant science to be created. He has also stressed that the oncoming 2003-2006 EU Sixth Framework Programme for research has earmarked Euro 685 million for food quality and safety studies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have given the European Commission a mandate to negotiate further liberalisation of trade between the existing EU and eastern and southern European countries wanting to become Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a paper examining ways of making European Union (EU) meat production more commercially competitive with imports from countries which do not have the same animal welfare standards. The report considered special welfare labelling, subsidising higher standards through the EU Common Agricultural Policy and granting better trade terms to high welfare imports.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN consumers are being ripped off by fraudsters making illegal use of the CE mark according to evidence submitted to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The CE mark denotes that a product was made in the European Union (EU) and conforms with EU safety legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCOTCH Whisky Association has said that it will resist moves by the European Commission to liberalise Europe’s bottle size rules, claiming that re-establishing a free-for-all would not help consumers.

Spokesman Campbell Evans was speaking about the formal consultation that Brussels is staging until January 30 over its conclusion that EU rules on packaging sizes could be too restrictive, especially regarding small sizes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REGULATORY controls have been proposed by the European Commission to prevent discounted AIDS, malaria and TB medicines supplied to developing countries under emergency medical programmes from being re-exported fraudulently into the European Union (EU). Brussels is worried that existing laws might be insufficient “after strongly discounted pharmaceuticals are sold to the poorest developing country markets (when) the economic interest in trade diversion into high priced markets therefore may increase significantly.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICHIGAN-BASED Aisin World Corp., a subsidiary of Japanese auto parts giant, Aisin Seiki Co. Ltd., has announced its expansion into Canada through the opening of a plant in Woodstock, in southern Ontario.

Aisin, makers of brakes, transmissions, engine parts and other components, will produce body moulding and windshield trim for a Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is to invest US$35 million in Pakistan’s Dewan Salman Fibre Ltd, the largest producer of polyester staple fibre in the country. The money – a senior loan of US$30 million, a convertible loan of US$4 million, and a US$1million participation in a convertible preferred stock issue – will help the company expand its polyester staple fibre capacity by adding a specialty fibre line of 20,000 tonnes per annum, refinancing debt, and funding its need for permanent working capital.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
OPPORTUNITIES for British and other European Union (EU) electricity power companies to participate in the reconstruction and development of war-damaged electricity systems in the Balkans have been opened up by the signing of an agreement to bring the systems into the EU’s regulatory orbit.…