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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8023

9 August 2001
(eu) eu/agriculture
Commission clears 8 million euro for apples and citrus fruit consumption

Brussels, 08/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - As we predicted (see EUROPE of 3 August, p.5), the European Commission has approved nine action programmes aimed at promoting the consumption of apples and citrus fruit in eight Member States of the EU - Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) - for a total of 8.31 million euro, 60% of which (4.98 million) from the Community budget. All requests submitted, under the on-going marketing year, were selected, which...