Brussels, 27/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Luxembourg on Monday 27 June, the Council of Ministers of the EU adopted, without debate, a decision on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the forthcoming meeting of the International Olive Council (IOC) on 15 July.
The Union will support, “subject to any future review on the basis of new developments”, the draft decisions on the standardisation for the physical, chemical and organoleptic characteristics of olive oils and olive-pomace oils and on the harmonisation of methods of analysis. Among the decisions is modification of the limit of ethyl esters. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)