8433 | Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 8437 | Manufacture from materials of any heading, except that of the product | Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 45 % of the ex-works price of the product |

The Commission has taken a positive view of the information submitted by Belarus as regards the animal health conditions in that third country required for transit of eggs and egg products for human consumption through the Union.

The French delegation noted the heavy financial consequences of AI on the poultry industry, the positive reaction taken at the Management Committee on poultry meat and eggs on 16 November, but asked for an increase of the export refunds on poultry meat, including on new destinations (North-African countries, Egypt, Cuba and South Africa), as well as Community co-financing for national advertising campaign on poultry meat in the EU, and urged the Commission to react rapidly to a crisis situation.

his Institution would take a constructive view on the further developments regarding the expected opinion of the French Government, in the follow-up of the opinion of the French Food Safety Agency on the lifting of the ban on imports of British beef;

The Commission considers that the operation as notified is likely to lead to the creation or strengthening of a dominant position in UF/(M)UF resins in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Belgium; to the creation or strengthening of a dominant position in PF/P(R)F resins in Finland and in Norway; to the creation of a dominant position in formaldehyde in Finland; to the creation of a dominant position in materials handling systems in individual Nordic countries or, alternatively, at the Nordic level; and to the creation of a dominant position in open plastic containers between 2 and 35 litres and for bottles and canisters below 5 litres in N ...[+++]orway.

– In my innocence and naivety I thought that when the scientific steering committee met last week and made their announcement, indeed the announcement was made by Mr Pascale, himself a Frenchman as President of that committee, indicating the unanimous approval of that committee that British beef is as safe as any other beef in the EU or possibly safer than any beef worldwide, that was the top of the pyramid.