Funds topping €17,5 billion will be poured into food-related
research as the European Commission announces first slice of
investment in the first year of the EU 6th Research Framework
Programme (FP6).
Welsh lamb has joined Cornish clotted cream, West Country farmhousecheddar cheese and stilton cheese on the list of 34 UK productsrecognised by the EU for their quality and regional identity.
Last week's agreement on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy -
even watered down as it was - has been welcomed by the EU's food
and drink manufacturers as a step in the right direction.
The EU and Canada have reached an agreement on the protection of a
number of wine and spirit terms, including Bordeaux, Champagne and
Grappa. But the EU's fight for protection of these names is likely
to be much harder when it...
With the imminent arrival of European enlargement, the welcoming
yesterday of 162 observers from candidate countries into the
European Parliament marked a significant step forward towards full
integration. The Confederation of the...
Last week the European Commission threatened 12 EU member states
with court action should they continue to ignore new EU legislation
regulating the release of GMOs into the environment. A new survey
released this week backs up the...
European Union farm ministers have agreed a number of changes to
the rules governing geographical indications such as Rioja and
Parma ham, allowing producers to argue their case for preparing and
packaging the product in the region...
Proposed changes to the oft-maligned Common Agricultural Policy
(CAP) have been broadly welcomed by the EU food industry, in
particular moves which will improve the competitiveness of the
European agriculture sector. But not everyone...
The European food and drink industry this week gave a vote of
confidence to the radical revamp of the 41 year old Common
Agricultural Policy proposed by European Agriculture Commissioner
Franz Fischler - but gave a clear warning about...
European Union leaders claimed a breakthrough on Thursday on the
path to expanding the bloc into eastern Europe after France and
Germany reached a landmark deal to control farm spending after
2007.
Spain's food and drink exports continue to grow steadily each year,
but the economic difficulties expected in many of its core overseas
markets will force the industry to concentrate on more product
promotions.
Britain has the highest prices for any EU country when it comes to
a variety of everyday food products, with prices more than double
those in Portugal, the cheapest country in the Union.
Confirmation that the European scientific world is alive and
kicking arrived this week when the Commission announced that it had
received over 12,000 'expressions of interest' (EoIs) in response
to a call for ideas on promising...
The European Commission said on Friday it would press ahead with
its proposals for radical reform of farm policy regardless of an
outburst of opposition by France's President Jacques Chirac.
Following the EU SCF opinion on upper intake limits of vitamins and
minerals issued earlier this week today we report that the Expert
Group on Vitamins and Minerals (EVM), an independent UK group set
up in 1997 to advise on safe upper...
French people include in their diets as much animal fat as people
in many other countries, they do not smoke less and their level of
blood cholesterol is not lower. Despite all this heart disease is
low. So what's the secret?...
"I am deeply troubled by this misunderstanding', said EU
Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler in response to allegations made by
US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and US Trade Representative
Robert Zoellick that the EU intends...
"EU citizens want safe food and a healthy environment from farm
policy", said the European Commission this week in anticipation
of the amendments to the Common Agricultural Policy. The claim
follows the latest Eurobarometer...
Trade friction between the European Commission and the United
States threatened to worsen yesterday as officials rejected
Washington's demand for an outright end to farm export subsidies
within a strict deadline.
Poland, the largest candidate for entry to the European Union, may
miss out on liberalisation of farm trade between the bloc and
applicant countries unless it changes its policy, an EU official
said last week, reports Reuters.
European Union agriculture ministers adopted regulations for a new
banana-import system Wednesday, formally marking an end to a
long-running dispute with the United States and Ecuador.
A senior U.S. official said on Wednesday it was "urgent" for the
European Union to find a way to end a three-year-old ban on
approvals of new genetically modified crops.
T-bone steak came a step closer to reappearing on European menus on
Tuesday after senior European Union officials said the removal of
cattle vertebrae from food stocks provided little extra protection
against the human form of "mad...
Danisco took its second field samples of beets; and according to
the results, the company expects an overall production well above
the quotas specified by the EU, but lower than the record
production of recent years.
A European Union pledge to open up access to Latin American banana
imports from July 1 should boost market conditions for depressed
Panamanian producers,...
The European Commission agreed on Wednesday to permit the marketing
of Canadian "Icewine", a specialised dessert wine made from grapes
frozen on the vine...
The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled Sweden's ban on
alcohol advertising to be obstacle to the free movement of services
within the EU and,...
EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and Chilean Foreign Minister
Soledad Alvear have agreed to bring to an end a 20 year old dispute
on spirits, and reached...
