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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8132

19 January 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food
Commission calls for information from Member States concerned by food contaminated by prohibited antibiotic

Brussels, 18/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - The discovery of a banned antibiotic - chloramphenicol - in veal marketed in Germany, France and Austria by a German company based in Germany, is the object of the European Commission's attention. The information, communicated on Thursday by a joint press release from the Agriculture Ministry of Germany and the Land of Lower Saxony, the regional state where the slaughterhouse with suspect meat is located, was not notified to the Commission as it should...

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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Union condemns Hadera attack, while Josep Piqué continues trip to Middle East
(EU) EU/KOSOVO: Solana condemns Hajdaraj's assassination
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(EU) EU/COLOMBIA: EU would like resumption of peace process
(EU) EP/FONTAINE PRESIDENCY: Nicole Fontaine relates her "battles" at head of "largest parliamentary democracy in world"
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GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/CONGO: Echo organises itself to help victims of volcanic eruption in Democratic Republic of Congo - Financing decision imminent
(EU) EU/Afghanistan: EU outlines its contribution to international efforts to rebuild Afghanistan ahead of Tokyo conference
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Towards clarification of bilateral agreement on trade in large capacity civil aircraft
(EU) EU/HUMANITRIAN AID: Commission granted 11 close to million euro in humanitarian aid to several regions of the world end of last year
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: Ministers of Fifteen to discuss minor proposals on Monday on potato starch, movement of pets and examine question of granting aid to Portuguese pig farmers
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: Tuesday's ECOFIN meeting to focus on assessment of six Stability and Convergence Programmes, progress on tax issues with third countries and Argentinian crisis
(EU) EU/FOOD: Commission calls for information from Member States concerned by food contaminated by prohibited antibiotic
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Commission proposes partial harmonisation of conditions for registering plant-based medicines
(EU) EU/ASEM: Working more closely together to combat climate change
(EU) EU/CYPRUS: Commissioner Verheugen highlights EU's role and prospect of enlargement in getting Cypriots around negotiating table
(EU) EP/ROAD TRANSPORT: Parliament approves Council common positions on maximum weights and dimensions of buses and on employment of third country drivers
(EU) EP/ENVIRONMENT: Parliament takes stance in favour of integrated policy for products, with clear objectives, a timetable and indicators
(EU) EP/SOCIAL: Parliament calls for European Works Council Directive to be applied to seafarers
(EU) EP/JHA: Parliament approves British, French and Swedish initiative on mutual recognition of pecuniary sanctions
(EU) EU/CULTURE: Viviane Reding says she will unveil draft new "Television without Frontiers" directive on 23 May
(EU) EU/EURO: Confirmation of price hikes for certain products in France
(EU) EU/TERRORISM: Swedish Eurojust representative claims EU played down planned terrorist attacks in EU before 11 September
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(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: 158 million euro for the Belgian province of Liege
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: 58 million euro for Belgian provinces of Namur and Luxembourg
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Adoption of a programme in favour of Luxembourg
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Interreg EUR 11.4 million programme is cleared in favour of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Mario Monti says liberalisation does not mean privatisation
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Tetra Laval appeal against Commission decision
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(EU) EU/TECHNOLOGY/PATENTS: Commission report on impact of conflict between patent protection and publication of papers on research that could be patentable
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Mario Monti speaks about communication on merger corrective measures, announcing publication of document for businesses
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