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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7813

5 October 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/bananas
Commission considers as legal, transparent and efficient the "first come first served" system for banana imports and proposes to apply it until 2006, with changes

Strasbourg, 04/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission made its choice: it proposed that the EU modify its import system for bananas by introducing (with modifications) the "first come first served" system, in the framework of the quota mechanism which already exists. This while awaiting to pass, in 2006, to a purely tariff based system. When presenting to the press this decision, Commissioner Franz Fischler recalled that the Council had entrusted the Commission, last July, to...

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