The UK's food regulator has clarified that suppliers of non-meat
products from the EU's ten new member states should be treated as
coming from within the bloc.
Europe's organic food and farming sector got a major boost this
week with the adoption by the European Commission of a new action
plan to promote the sector. The challenge will be to ensure, and
maintain, consumer trust in premium-priced...
Earlier this month CAOBISCO, the body which represents European
manufacturers of sugar-based foods, came racing to side of the
businesses it represents in the accession countries. Once installed
in an enlarged Europe, the new Member...
The 10 new Member States due to join the EU are on course to meet
the EU's food safety standards, said EU Commissioner David Byrne,
who claims that significant progress has been made in recent
months.
With accession of the new Member States due on 1 May 2004, the EU
is making appropriate arrangements to ensure a sufficient supply of
bananas to all consumers in the EU. To this end, the current import
volumes for bananas will be...
In a speech given yesterday in Brussels, Dr Franz Fischler, EU
Commissioner for Agricultural, Rural Development and Fisheries,
outlined a number of pressing areas relating to enlargement, with
quality and administrative issues being...
