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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10464

1 October 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/agriculture
Commission agrees to private storage of olive oil

Brussels, 30/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission announced on Thursday 29 September that it intended to allow private storage of olive oil, following a fall in market prices, especially in Spain, in recent weeks. Spain, backed up by the other producer countries, Italy, France and Greece, has been pressing consistently for such a decision.

Article 33 of the 2007 regulation on common market organisation (CMO) states that the Commission can authorise bodies to enter into...

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