Europe's food industry will significantly benefit from a
satisfactory WTO agreement, but for this to happen the EU must
maintain its multilateral approach and issues such as export
support must be addressed.
The European Commission does not favour setting up a single system
for the eco-labelling of fish and fish products, according to a
consultation document issued yesterday.
Growing consumer spending levels in China have helped boost sales
at two of the world's leading drinks groups. South Africa's
SABMiller and France's Rémy Cointreau both benefited from the
increasing interest in premium...
Europe comes closer to rubber stamping harmonised controls for
controlling mycotoxins in the food chain and the Scottish food
agency offers stakeholders a snapshot of recent talks.
Breakthrough talks at the weekend on world trade will have received
a reticent welcome from a European food industry likely to see the
phasing out of payouts to export food products.
The European Union is ready to cut generous, and much criticised,
subsidies on farm exports to jump start troubled world trade talks,
said EU trade chief Pascal Lamy on Monday.
A biotech battle will take place in Luxembourg today at a meeting
of EU15 agriculture ministers that could finally mark the end to
the GM ban in Europe, heralding the debut of a raft of GM foods.
Food ingredients companies head off to China with agriculture chief
Fischler next week on a mission to boost trade relations and create
new business opportunities for the food industry.
Carrefour, the French company which is the world's second largest
food retailer, has this week opened its first hypermarket in China
for nearly two years after finally ensuring that its operations
there comply with Chinese regulations.
When 145 countries walked away from the negotiating table at the
World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun in September,
disappointment hung in the air over a failure to make real
progress. Since then bureaucrats and politicians...
Global tugs of war continue in the trade zone with the the WTO
agreeing to demands from the US and Australia to examine Europe's
rules on the protection of place and product names.
On the eve of the 5th WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún, the
Confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU, the voice
of the €600 billion European food and drink industry, urges WTO
members to come to a balanced framework...
As the countdown to the September rendez-vous for WTO global trade
negotiations in Cancun in Mexico begins, European agriculture
commissioner Franz Fischler shares his views on globalisation and
the market economy, and in particular,...
Food safety is making international headlines as the United States
and the European Union continue to take dramatically different
positions over this contentious issue. A food policy think-tank
raises concerns that these transatlantic...
The European food and drink industry - the second largest world
exporter of processed foodstuffs - made calls for a fairer playing
field for members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at a
conference held in Brussels last week.
So, they went ahead and did it anyway. Despite imminent changes to
the European legislation on genetically modified organisms (GMOs),
re-iterated by EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy just this week,
the US has gone ahead and filed...
The trade case filed by a leading North American producer of
saccharin advanced another step this week with a preliminary
determination by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) that
saccharin imports from the People's Republic...
EU launches bold WTO initiative to protect products with unique
geographical indications, from Stilton cheese to Basmati
riceProtecting basmati rice and Darjeeling tea.
The European Union said on Tuesday it would seek agreement in the
World Trade Organisation (WTO) for all food aid to poor countries
to be in the form of cash payments for purchases in local markets.
The fourth annual conference on the hotly discussed topic of food
irradiation, "Food Irradiation 2002: The Global Summit for Food
Safety," is to take place from March 20 to 22, 2002, at the
Sheraton Park Central Hotel in...
The WTO ruled in favour of the European Union in a dispute with the
United States over a long-running legal battle between alcoholic
beverage giants Bacardi and Pernod Ricard.
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...
The European Union will raise tariffs on U.S. corn gluten imports
next week in response to U.S. tariffs on wheat gluten, a spokesman
said Friday, Associated...
