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

Legal basis problem for school milk-fruit distribution

Brussels, 13/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - At the Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 13 July, a large majority of EU agriculture ministers were in favour of resuming discussions on the proposal merging the programmes for distributing fruit and vegetables and milk in schools. The problems that were thrown up relate to the choice of legal basis, the sharing out of aid and the products involved.

European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan said that evaluation of these programmes demonstrates...