Brussels, 13/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - The agricultural professional organisations COPA and COGECA are opposed to abolition of the intervention system, which is one of the main elements of reform of the common organisation of the market in the rice sector, proposed by the European Commission. They see this as a dangerous precedent for other crops. Producers and their cooperatives are calling for abolition of the price ceiling mechanism for the calculation of import duties, which implies the...