Brussels, 07/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - At the latest meeting of the Special Agriculture Committee (SAC), on 3 February, Seven Member States (Italy, Greece, Portugal, France, Austria and Finland) welcomed the draft mandate request by the European Commission in view of modifying at the WTO the Community import scheme in the rice sector. The Commission would like to begin talks in Geneva with traditional rice supplier countries, which are the United States, India, Pakistan and Thailand, to as...