Brussels, 28/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - In a letter sent to the European Commissioner for trade, Pascal Lamy, on Tuesday, UNICE has voiced its concern that the Commission is organising a conference on the principle of collective preferences, by which a countries or a group of countries can adopt trade measures to safeguard the societal values it sees as its own (such as refusing to import meat from a country which does not respect EU standards on animal welfare). In substance, the European...