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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to update its administrative systems for monitoring its trade in textiles and clothing with the limited number of countries with whom it does not have trade agreements covering the sector. In particular, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to update rules on surveillance and the use of electronic documentation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERN has been sparked by new proposals from the European Commission to abolish the European Union’s dedicated architectural committee, which rules on whether qualifications awarded to architects in a Member States should be recognised across the EU.

Under proposals to streamline the complex legislation governing the mutual recognition of European qualifications, the Commission is proposing that a central committee should be established to make rulings about the quality of all EU professional diplomas and degrees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW pan-European pharmaceuticals company called Consilient Health has been launched in Brussels to help pharmaceutical companies from the eastern and southern European countries seeking membership of the European Union to integrate with its market and regulatory structures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the management of European Union ‘SAPARD’ agricultural development funds by the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This means that meat producers in the two countries will benefit from annual grants worth Euro 22.4 and 18.6 million respectively, payable until the countries join the EU, maybe by 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LAPSED double-checking system for imports of Romanian steel products into the European Union is to be reinstated from July, assuming EU ministers approve a proposal from the European Commission. The system was established when Romania and the EU signed an association agreement, (a broad trade and political relations deal), in 1996, but its legal authority lapsed last December.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is offering to check how countries are implementing environmental treaties such as monitoring the growth of forests under the Kyoto Protocol or their rate of shrinkage under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Its Treaty Enforcement Services using Earth Observation can use ESA satellites to check the extent of national woodland stocks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN an interesting recent analysis of the problems facing livestock and other food producers in Europe, the European Union agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler suggested that one way forward could be through contract farming.

Instead of producing in the traditional way for the open market, he said, producers might consider linking with retail groups or the meat processing industry and delivering precisely what was needed in terms of both quality and quantity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has approved the lending of Euro 300,000 to help finance a Euro 1.8 million feasibility study into the viability of extracting strontianite ore at Kangankunde, in Malawi, southern Africa, and then processing it into marketable strontium carbonate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered a feasibility project studying the possible establishment in Brussels of an inter-institutional library for European Union organisations. This would house documents of relevance to the Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the EU Committee of the Regions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is joining with Raiffeisenbank Austria to set up a US$12 million pilot leasing facility, to allow Russian mining and construction companies to secure equipment from top mining machinery manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.…