WEEKLY EXTERNAL TRADE NEWS OF THE
EUROPEAN COMMISSION, EU Trade News, 21 September 2006
Soon an EU Trade Communication on
Comptitiveness, EU Trade News, 18 September 2006
EU delays decision on reforming
banana subsidy system, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
EU inaugurates European Maritime
Safety Agency, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
Microsoft urges EU not to jeopardise
security in Vista row, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
EU to restrict liquids in hand luggage
for air passengers, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
EU sees deal on financing cross-border
transport projects, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
EU to clip wings of central banks to
fight protectionism, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
Experts urge EU to ratchet up air
pollution standards, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
EU cannot guarantee absence of GM rice
in European market, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
French gas privatisation raises heat
in France and EU, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
EU lifts eurozone growth forecast
to six-year high EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
EU has "two months" to avoid a crisis with
Turkey, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
Europe's top court scraps EU cotton aid regime, EU Business Week, 8 September
2006
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September 2006
ANTI DUMPING EU Trade News,7 September 2006
THE EU AND THE WTO EU Trade News, 7 September 2006
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WEEKLY EXTERNAL TRADE
NEWS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, EU Trade News, 21 September 2006
TURKEY
Calming fears crucial for rational debate on Turkish EU membership For EU Trade
Commissioner Peter Mandelson, the political repercussions of Europe’s
response to the economic challenges of globalisation will impact on the ongoing
debate on Turkish membership of the EU: Turkey risks becoming "the projected
image of everything Europe fears about a changing world".
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WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
EU requests establishment of WTO panel on Chinese auto parts tariffs
The Chinese rules oblige EU car makers who wish to avoid higher duties to
source car parts in China. The EU believes this contravenes WTO rules that do
not permit the imposition of obligations to use "local content".
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Soon an EU Trade
Communication on Competitiveness, EU Trade News, 18 September 2006
TRADE AND COMPETITIVNESS
Mandelson: October EU trade policy shake-up will reject protectionism at home,
seek open markets abroad
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has announced that the European
Commission’s October review of EU trade policy will focus on defending
Europe’s openness to imports while taking a more "activist" approach to
opening markets, and securing fair treatment for EU companies abroad, chiefly
in the large emerging markets of Brazil and Asia.
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EU delays decision on
reforming banana subsidy system, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
The Commission has pulled back from proposing changes to the rules for EU aid
to banana producers that are aimed at decoupling subsidies from prices .
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EU inaugurates European
Maritime Safety Agency, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
The permanent headquarters of the European Maritime Safety Agency was
officially inaugurated in Lisbon on Thursday, after operating temporarily from
Brussels since its creation in 2002 in the wake of the Erika oil tanker
disaster.
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Microsoft urges EU not to
jeopardise security in Vista row, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
The Commission is to restrict the amount of liquids allowed in hand luggage for
air passengers, in a new security measure.
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EU to restrict liquids in
hand luggage for air passengers, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
The Commission is to restrict the amount of liquids allowed in hand luggage for
air passengers, in a new security measure.
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EU sees deal on financing
cross-border transport projects, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot voiced confidence Wednesday that the
European Union would rapidly reach a deal on financing big, but costly,
cross-border projects.
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EU to clip wings of
central banks to fight protectionism, EU Business Week, 15 September 2006
The European Commission on Tuesday proposed setting strict limits on the powers
of central banks to block mergers and takeovers in the banking sector.
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Experts urge EU to
ratchet up air pollution standards, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
Experts have called on the EU to toughen proposals on curbing two forms of air
pollution linked to thousands of premature deaths per year.
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EU cannot guarantee absence of GM rice in
European market, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
The Commission has warned that it cannot guarantee that an unauthorised strain
of genetically modified rice from the United States is not present in the EU
market.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Environ/060831115649.dea3a28b
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French gas privatisation raises heat
in France and EU, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
A new round in a bitter fight over French energy privatisation began in the
French parliament Thursday over a plan for Gaz de France to merge with Suez,
which also spotlights deep strains in European energy policy.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Energy/060907102606.iakofbt8
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EU lifts eurozone
growth forecast to six-year high EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
The EU has two months to avoid a "serious crisis" in its relations with Turkey
over its treatment of Cyprus, the bloc's Finnish presidency has warned.
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EU has "two months" to avoid a crisis
with Turkey, EU Business Week, 8 September 2006
The EU has two months to avoid a "serious crisis" in its relations with Turkey
over its treatment of Cyprus, the bloc's Finnish presidency has warned.
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Europe's top court scraps EU cotton
aid regime,EU Trade News, 8 September 2006
The EU's highest court ruled on Thursday that the EU's cotton aid regime, drawn
up after difficult negotiations in 2004, must be scrapped.
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British working time guidelines infringe EU law: court
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THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA EU Trade
News,7 September 2006
"Rio offers chance for Doha discussion and review"
Speaking in a European Parliament debate on the Doha Round of WTO trade
negotiations in Strasbourg, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has said that
this weekend‘s G20 Summit in Rio offers the first opportunity since the
suspension of the talks in July for Ministers to "review what happened in
Geneva".
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ANTI DUMPING EU Trade News, 7 September
2006
Commission to publish Green Paper in on-going reflection on EU Trade
Defence rules
The Commission has just confirmed the next step in this process: a broad public
consultation early in 2007 that will be based on a Green Paper expected in the
last quarter of 2006.
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THE EU AND THE WTO EU Trade News, 7
September 2006
EU says Vietnam has fulfilled requirements for WTO
accession
At a meeting today with Vietnamese Trade
Minister Truong Dinh Tuyen, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has said that
Vietnam and the EU have reached an agreement on all remaining WTO multilateral
issues of interest to the EU and Vietnam.
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