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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11358
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture

New emergency measures announced on Russian ban

Brussels, 13/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan told EU farm ministers on Monday 13 July that he was preparing new exceptional measures to assist the fruit and vegetable sector that has been hard hit by the Russian embargo (extended to 2016) on the import of European agri-food products “in order to mitigate the risk of market disturbance”.

“However, it is clear that for certain sectors and specific member states and regions, the situation has been...