Recently added articles from Europe Agri:
AGRICULTURAL SPENDING IN GREECE.(Brief article)
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission has launched the procedure aimed at reducing by 10% the payments to Greece for area-based agricultural and rural development aid measures, due to ongoing shortcomings in its national control system. The shortcomings mainly concern the land parcel identification ...
AID TO VILLASOR ILLEGAL.(Brief article)
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission decided, on 16 July, that the 3.5 million in aid that Sardinia planned to grant to Villasor sugar refinery is not compatible with rules on state aid in agriculture. The aid was meant to compensate ...
CAP: CALL FOR TENDER FOR OUTERMOST REGIONS.(Common Agricultural Policy)(Brief article)
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission launched, on 16 July, a call for tender for an ex-post evaluation of the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and relevance of the measures carried out for the outermost regions (POSEI) and the smaller Aegean islands within the context of the Common Agricultural ...
AGRICULTURE/DEVELOPMENT : COMMISSION PROPOSES MASSIVE AID TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission has proposed to take 1 billion out of the unused appropriations of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and give it in aid to farmers in developing countries. Supported at the EU summit in June, the proposal now appears to meet with reluctance by certain member ...
COMMISSION REJECTS AID FOR SUGAR REFINERY.(Brief article)
Jul 28, 2008 ... Sardinia's plans to aid Villasor sugar refinery have been stopped short by the European Commission. The aid had been meant to compensate Villasor for the losses it incurred during a drought in 2001-2002. State aid rules only allow for compensation in the event of drought to primary ...
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS : COMMISSION RETHINKS SIGNS OF QUALITY.
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission's services have completed work on a green paper on agricultural products. This document, of less than 20 pages, should be adopted on 15 October. It will serve as a starting point for launching a broad public consultation on the future of the signs of quality at the ...
DAIRY PRODUCTS : COMMISSION TO SIMPLIFY SCHOOL MILK SCHEME.
Jul 28, 2008 ... After having presented its school fruit scheme' at the beginning of the week, the European Commission is to bring several modifications to the programme for the distribution of milk in schools, intended to combat obesity. This programme was launched in the 1970s, a period marked by a ...
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL FOR LESAFFRE BUY OF GBI UK.(GB Ingredients Ltd acquired BFP Wholesale Ltd )(Brief article)
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission approved, on 11 July, the acquisition of GB Ingredients Ltd and BFP Wholesale Ltd (GBI UK) engaged in the yeast business and owned by Gilde B.V, by the French yeast manufacturer Compagnie des Levures Lesaffre. The Commission's decision is conditional upon Lesaffre's ...
EU/MAURITANIA : COUNCIL ENDORSES NEW FISHERIES PROTOCOL.(European Union)(Brief article)
Jul 28, 2008 ... European fishermen and Mauritanian officials breathed a sigh of relief, on 15 July, after the Fisheries Council approved, by qualified majority (with Spain voting against), a new protocol concluded in March under the Fisheries Partnership Agreement. The protocol sets fishing possibilities ...
DAIRY SECTOR MERGER UNDER SCRUTINY.
Jul 28, 2008 ... The planned merger between Campina and Friesland Foods, both Dutch companies active in a range of dairy product markets, raises serious competition concerns given that the two companies compete on the same dairy product markets and that it is possible that the combination of the two ...
DANISCO BUY OF ABITEC AUTHORISED.
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission cleared, on 16 July, the acquisition of Abitec (UK) by Danisco (Denmark). Danisco is a global producer of food ingredients, in particular of emulsifiers, with production facilities worldwide. Abitec produces emulsifiers in just one production site in the UK. The ...
DDCE-DUPONT-DANISCO JV CLEARED.
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission granted clearance, on 14 July, to the acquisition of joint control of DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE-US), a newly created company constituting a joint venture, by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (US) and Danisco U.S., ...
ANIMAL HEALTH : EFSA BACKS REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF BSE TESTS.
Jul 28, 2008 ... Only one case of mad cow disease a year would go undetected in the EU15 if the age for mandatory testing were raised from 30 months today to 36 or 48 months, states the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in an opinion issued on 17 July. Its opinion was sought by the European Commission, ...
BIOFUELS : EU BIOFUELS TARGET UNDER PRESSURE.
Jul 28, 2008 ... For the heads of state and government of the world's eight richest nations (G8 - Germany, Canada, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Russia and Italy), meeting in Japan on 8 July, and for members of the European Parliament, meeting the day before in Strasbourg, the ...
PLANT HEALTH : EXPERTS IN FAVOUR OF A NEW STRATEGY.
Jul 28, 2008 ... Problems have been arising with the assessment of phytosanitary risks, cracks appearing in import control procedures and there has been a poor distribution of tasks between EU member states, the European Commission and the European Food Safety Agency. Experts from the working group on ...
AGRICULTURE COUNCIL : FISCHER BOEL PRESENTS SCHOOL FRUIT SCHEME.
Jul 28, 2008 ... Mariann Fischer Boel presented to the EU's agriculture ministers, on 15 July in Brussels, the programme for the free distribution of fruit and vegetables in schools, with a budget of 90 million, which she proposes to launch with the start of the 2009 school year. This initial action is ...
FISHERIES AGENCY MOVES TO VIGO.
Jul 28, 2008 ... The Community Fisheries Control Agency's final seat was inaugurated, on 19 July, in Vigo (Spain). Considered as the cornerstone of the EU's efforts to ensure sustainable fishing in the areas that it controls, the agency is charged with the task of organising the operational cooperation of ...
FISHERIES : FISHERIES CONTROL AGENCY TO GET STRONGER REMIT.
Jul 28, 2008 ... The European Commission will present proposals in October 2008 to strengthen fisheries control and surveillance measures and procedures, a key section of which will strengthen the remit of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA), Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Commissioner Joe Borg ...
FOOD SAFETY : FISH TOPS LIST OF DANGEROUS FOODS.
Jul 28, 2008 ... Most of the foods alerted as dangerous by EU member states in 2007 came from the fisheries sector, such as fish contaminated with mercury or dioxins in canned fish liver, states the European Commission's annual report on the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), published on 23 ...
FRUIT & VEGETABLE : FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETING STANDARDS TO BE MADE SIMPLER.
Jul 28, 2008 ... By the end of this year, specific marketing standards for fruit and vegetables in the EU - relating to size, shape and appearance - will be repealed for products intended for processing. The proposal was presented by the European Commission as part of the reform of the Common Agricultural ...