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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10164
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

Commission withdraws draft proposals on organic wine

Brussels, 21/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - Dacian Cioloº, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, decided on 16 June to withdraw draft proposals aimed at bringing in new rules for the production of organic wine. This failure is largely due to the fact that it has been impossible to reach common ground on/ the sulphites content.

The aim of the Commission's proposal was to create a new “organic wine” concept, so far excluded from European legislation. For now, only wine...

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