Brussels, 29/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - COPA-COGECA considers the measures taken by the EU to contain the spread of black spot disease will have no impact. The disease affects certain South African citrus fruits (see EUROPE 10973).
The standing committee on plant health approved, on 28 November, a Commission proposal aimed at suspending Community imports of citrus fruit from the South African zones affected by the highly contagious black spot disease, in order to prevent contagion within EU...