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EU threat to farmers
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
LDCs ring the alarm bell before Bonn
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EU approves stevia extract as sweetener
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2011
In a much awaited move, the European Union has approved the use and sale steviol glycosides, extracted from the leaves of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana), as a sweetener. The decision to allow its use was taken on November 11. The regulation will come into force from December 2.
Crisis staved off
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2002
The memories of Belgium's 1999 dioxin crisis were revived with Germany shaken over feed grain contaminated by nitrofen, a cancer-causing chemical banned in the European Union (eu). Even though thousands of organic chickens were slaughtered, it was feared that infected meat and eggs had already entered the food chain.
Energising!
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2001
the European Union (eu) governments have recently approved a new directive on renewable energy. The directive seeks to achieve the Kyoto Protocol targets of the eu. As per the directive, eu's member states must ensure that renewable energy sources supply 12 per cent of gross internal energy consumption and 22.1 per cent of electricity consumption by 2010.
Bird-brained?
Issue Date: Dec 31, 1996
IRATE South Africans are protesting the
European Union (EU) ban on their
ostrich meat and live birds following
an outbreak of Congo fever. The EU
ban came into effect after an abattoir
worker died recently and 16 others were
infected with the fever in Oudtshoorn, a
town close to South Africa's ostrich
industry.
What has left the South Africans
fuming is the fact that while the disease
has been detected in one area, the Eu ban would apply to the whole c6untry and
could put a question mark on ostrich
meat exports. The country supplies
80 per cent of the global demand for
Disagreeable rules
Issue Date: Dec 31, 1996
MUCH controversy later, EU countries
have finally agreed upon rules to allow
the sales of genetically engineered
products. While food companies are
naturally relieved at the outcome, the
Eu decision has sparked off protests
among environmentalists who have
campaigned for long against the import
of such products into the region. Even
Austria and Germany supported the
eco-groups and called for tough rules
as the products could harm human
health.
In a nutshell, the new Eu rules allow
for 'novel' products, as the genetically
engineered products are identified, to
Indifference aplenty
Issue Date: Dec 31, 1996
EVEN as fish catches
across the world continue to decrease, in
the European Union
(EU), no great effort
seems to be put into
conserving the
species. A concerned
Emma Bonino, the EU
fisheries commissioner, had proposed
that a 40 per cent
decrease in fish
catches be observed,
but
this has not gone
well with the EU countries. A compromise
solution proposed
by Ireland at a
recent meet in
Brussels
calls for cuts of
only 20 per cent.
This effectively
dilutes the European
Commission's plans to
reduce catches
and will also have no
bearing whatsoever on reducing the
Beefing up
Issue Date: Dec 15, 1996
IN WHAT is being described as the first comprehensive European Union (eu) attempt to prop a market hard hit by the beef crisis, farm ministers of these countries have arrived at a compromise deal. The agreement raises the level of beef the eu can procure and store away to hike the prices later and also to cut payments for the breeding of bulls and provide for subsidies for less intensive cattle breeding.
SENEGAL
Issue Date: Nov 30, 1996
The sea of Senegal is bearing the brunt of overfishing and pollution. The fishing policy of the European Union has worsened the problem of overfishing in these waters. The eu trawlers are crowding the African coastal waters and fishing them empty.
