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EU News Flashes and Events for 96-12-10

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From: EUROPA, the European Commission Server at <http://europa.eu.int>


CONTENTS

  • [01] Environment Council finishes
  • [02] No climate change goals agreement
  • [03] Ciba Geigy gene-maize decision
  • [04] Ministers threaten fur import ban
  • [05] New wild species trade rules
  • [06] France, Germany want strong euro
  • [07] EU reform initiative launching
  • [08] Franco-German budget pact
  • [09] New Commission auditing strategy
  • [10] Progress on infotech pact at WTO
  • [11] World trade slowing fast in 1996
  • [12] Little 1997 fish quotas change
  • [13] Irish cut-price butter backed
  • [14] Slot allocation rules in January
  • [15] Commission to rule on Clabecq aid
  • [16] 5 Mecus to Hungary and Slovakia
  • [17] Main EU events for December 10

  • [01] Environment Council finishes

    BRUSSELS - European environment ministers completed a long environment council agenda in the early hours of Tuesday morning, boasting a common position and a political agreement for their efforts but failing to secure a deal on climate change.

    [02] No climate change goals agreement

    BRUSSELS - European Union environment ministers failed late on Monday to set targets for post-2000 cuts in the bloc's emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, with a deal foundering on how far and how fast to go.

    [03] Ciba Geigy gene-maize decision

    BRUSSELS - European Union environment ministers urged the European Commission on Monday to stick to a December 18 deadline for a decision on whether to allow Ciba Geigy's gene-modified maize to be released on EU markets.

    [04] Ministers threaten fur import ban

    BRUSSELS - European Union environment ministers threatened on Monday to impose an EU import ban on fur from animals caught in leg-hold traps unless negotiators from Canada, the United States and Russia accept tighter humane trapping standards, a statement said.

    [05] New wild species trade rules

    BRUSSELS - The Environment Council adopted a new regulation on Monday to tighten controls on the multi-billion-dollar EU trade in endangered animal and plant species such as rhinoceros, tigers, parrots and orchids.

    [06] France, Germany want strong euro

    NUREMBERG, Germany - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dismissing speculation that entry criteria for the planned single European currency would be diluted, said on Monday neither France nor Germany wanted a weak euro currency.

    [07] EU reform initiative launching

    NUREMBERG, Germany - France and Germany outlined joint proposals for reforming the European Union on Monday, calling for closer cooperation on internal and external security and a shakeup of EU institutions.

    [08] Franco-German budget pact

    NUREMBERG, Germany - Germany and France have made little progress in resolving their differences over a stability pact to ensure fiscal discipline within European monetary union, a delegation source said on Monday.

    [09] New Commission auditing strategy

    BRUSSELS - The European Commission said on Monday the European Union needed a new approach to statutory auditing, but that it should take place through cooperation and coordination rather than legislation.

    [10] Progress on infotech pact at WTO

    SINGAPORE - The world's top trade mandarins trumpeted signs of early progress on Monday toward a multi-billion dollar pact for free world commerce in information technology but wrangling over cheap labour threatened a final consensus.

    [11] World trade slowing fast in 1996

    SINGAPORE - Growth in international merchandise trade has slowed sharply this year after running at three times the rate of expansion in the global economy in 1995, the World Trade Organisation reported on Monday.

    [12] Little 1997 fish quotas change

    BRUSSELS - The European Commission outlined on Monday a proposal for little change in most 1997 fish catch quotas, despite a warning earlier this year that sharp cuts were needed in fleets to save threatened stocks.

    [13] Irish cut-price butter backed

    BRUSSELS - The European Commission has backed an Irish government request to be allowed to sell butter to people on social assistance at reduced prices, an EU official said on Monday.

    [14] Slot allocation rules in January

    BRUSSELS - The European Commission will recognise formally, perhaps as early as January, the existence of a market for selling airport slots in Europe's congested airports.

    [15] Commission to rule on Clabecq aid

    BRUSSELS - The European Commission is expected to rule next week that a 1.5-billion-Belgian- franc capital injection for steel maker Forges de Clabecq amounts to public subsidies and cannot be approved.

    [16] 5 Mecus to Hungary and Slovakia

    BUDAPEST - The European Union has allocated five million ecus to rebuild a bridge between Hungary and Slovakia destroyed in World War Two, the European Commission's delegation in Budapest said on Monday.

    [17] Main EU events for December 10

    BRUSSELS - NATO foreign ministers meeting.

    STRASBOURG - European Commission holds regular weekly meeting.

    STRASBOURG - European Parliament holds plenary session (second of two days); debates the European Commission's 1997 work programme, financing of EU enlargement and the EU 1997 budget.


    From EUROPA, the European Commission Server at http://europa.eu.int/
    © ECSC - EC - EAEC, Brussels-Luxembourg, 1995, 1996


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