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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8416

8 March 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture/wto
Despite ambient pessimism, Fischler repeats EU hopes to reach agreement on liberalisation modalities in March

Brussels, 07/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - Despite the failure of the last meeting of the WTO Agriculture Committee, Commissioner Franz Fischler repeated, on Thursday, that the "EU remains firmly committed to reaching agreement on the modalities by the target date agreed at Doha, i.e. 31 March 2003". After meeting Stuart Harbinson, who chaired negotiations in this sector, Mr Fischler felt it was of utmost importance to assess policies according to the distorting effect they have on trade. The...

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