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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7685

27 March 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) acp/eu
Joint Assembly against altering CMO for bananas as proposed by the Commission and demands protection of ACP cocoa and rum

Abuja, 27/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - By adopting a joint resolution by the ACP and European groups, the ACP-EU Joint Assembly strongly disputed the current proposal to reform the common market organisation (CMO) for bananas, which, it says, goes well beyond the aspects that the WTO had asked to change. The Assembly rejected: (1) the automatic transition in 2006 to the "tariff only" system, which would have as consequence an end to Community banana production as well as affecting many ACP...

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