21/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - New promotion programmes. On Tuesday 21 April, the European Commission approved 41 new programmes to promote agricultural products in the EU and on third country markets, worth €130 million over 3 years, with half (€65 million) coming from the EU budget. This includes an extra €30 million in EU funding made available by the Commission following the Russian ban on imports of EU food products last August. The selected programmes, from 18 different member states, cover a variety of product categories, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products, quality products (PDOs, PGIs and TSGs), organic products, olive oil, meat, as well as combination of different product categories. Some 17 of these programmes target the internal EU market and 24 target third countries. (http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/promotion/campaigns/2015/2015_en.pdf ) (LC)