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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7868

21 December 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/bananas
Agriculture Ministers have approved new CMO for bananas with "first come, first served" system, which should resolve dispute in WTO, and with a tariff preference of EUR 300 per tonne for ACP countries

Brussels, 20/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The "Agriculture" Council approved, Tuesday evening, unanimously with the exception of the United Kingdom, the modification of the common market organisation for bananas that aims to resolve the Euro-American conflict by introducing the "first come, first served" system for all the contingents, while foreseeing a tariff preference of EUR 300/tonne in favour of the ACP countries in the framework of the third contingent. This new systems should enter into...

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