11/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - Measures required to avoid black spot disease in citrus fruit. On Thursday 10 March, Copa-Cogeca sent the European Commission a letter to ask it to strengthen the measures aimed at avoiding the highly contagious black spot disease in the EU, which attacks citrus fruit. Figures show that 70 cases have been detected from Uruguay, 15 from South Africa, 17 from Argentina and 13 from Brazil. Copa-Cogeca advocates an automatic ban on imports of citrus fruit from areas...