Europe Agri articles from January 2006

Europe Agri archives from January 2006

ANOTHER EURO 15 MILLION TO PROMOTE EU AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2006... Twenty-five programmes presented by 14 member states to provide information on and to promote agricultural products in the European Union are to receive euro 25.5 million from the EU. The sum represents 50% of the total budget of the...

GENETIC ENGINEERING: ROMANIAN CROPS 'CONTAMINATED' WITH GM-SOYA, CLAIMS GREENPEACE.
January 13, 2006... "Transgenic seeds are a poisoned promise. Romania did not have any scientific and public debate prior to the commercial introduction. Neither the authorities, nor the companies applied the precautionary principle in assessing the impact of...

WASTE: RECYCLING AT THE HEART OF NEW THEMATIC STRATEGY.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2006... Modernising the 1975 Waste Framework Directive will merge, streamline and clarify legislation, contributing to better regulation. But the Commission in no way wishes to call into question the waste 'hierarchy' whereby landfill is the last...

LUXEMBOURG WARNED AGAIN FOR NOT IMPLEMENTING EU BIOTECH INVENTIONS DIRECTIVES.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2006... The European Commission said on January 10 it had sent a further reasoned opinion to Luxembourg, asking the Grand Duchy to comply immediately with 2004 European Court of Justice ruling that ticked it off for not implementing the 1998 Directive...

GREECE TOLD TO LIFT BAN ON 17 TYPES OF GENETICALLY-MODIFIED MAIZE.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2006... The European Commission decided on January 10 that Greece may not ban the sale of 17 types of genetically-modified maize of the MON810 variety. Athens informed the Commission in April 2005* that it had adopted a ministerial decree extending the...

FARM PRICES: OUTPUT PRICES DOWN, INPUTS COSTS UP IN EU.
January 13, 2006... Output prices. The price index for crop output as a whole for August 2005 was up 0.6% on the same month of 2004. This increase contrasted to the sharp falls observed in the last twelve months which reached 14.3% in September 2004 and 13.1%...

AVIAN FLU SURVEILLANCE MEASURES EXTENDED UNTIL END OF 2006.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2006... EU requirements for the on-going surveillance of wild birds and poultry for signs of avian influenza that were due to expire on January 31 have been extended until the end of December, following a decision by the Standing Committee on the Food...

COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: PRIORITY IN 2006 FOR AN INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURAL MODEL.
January 13, 2006... The European Agricultural model. The two presidencies, which change over on July 1, have decided to give priority to consolidating the reform of the CAP, which established in 2003, and entered into force throughout the EU in 2006. The more...

FALL IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE APPLE HARVEST IN 2005.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2006... The overall apple harvest in the northern hemisphere in 2005 for the fresh fruit market will be about three million tonnes down on 2004 according to United States Department of Agriculture. USDA estimates last year's harvest in the northern...

IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON CROATIA LIMITED TO REGIONS AFFECTED BY BIRD FLU.
January 13, 2006... Following the introduction by Croatia of strict measures to combat the threat of bird flu and on the basis of the latest information regarding the current situation in the country, the European Commission decided on January 11 to limit EU...

COMMISSION CLEARS INVIVO AND TOEPFER TO TAKE JOINT CONTROL IN FEED PRODUCER SOULES.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2006... The European Commission on December 23 agreed to the joint acquisition of French non-grain feed producer Soules by InVivo and Alfred C. Toepfer International. Even though the acquisition means that there will be just three main actors in the...

CALENDAR OF EVENTS.(Calendar)
January 13, 2006... January 2006 14-15 Berlin, Germany - "GMO-Free Regions - biodiversity and rural development". Second European Conference on GMO-free Regions. The conference will bring together representatives of GMO-free regional and local governments and...

NEW PUBLICATIONS.(The European Environment: State and Outlook 2005, 3rd ed.)(La Fracture Agricole et Alimentaire Mondiale)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 13, 2006... * The global agricultural and food divide: With the inevitable consequence of lower prices, liberalisation of agricultural markets can actually be more of a handicap than an advantage for the development of poor countries. This is the...

NEW PUBLICATION: COMPENDIUM OF REPORTS FROM AGRICULTURE AND BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE.(Brief Article)
January 27, 2006... This compendium brings together the reports and recommendations of the experts as presented at the June 2002 High-level Pan-European Conference on Agriculture and Biodiversity in Paris. The event, organised by the Council of Europe and the...

CALENDAR OF EVENTS.(Calendar)
January 27, 2006... February 17 Brest, France - Maritime Europe Seminar. Conference on the EU's maritime policy organised by the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CRPM) on the EU's maritime policy. The Commission is due to publish a Green Paper on...