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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8543

17 September 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/cotton
Commission to propose decoupling of aid in cotton sector, to go some way to addressing African problem

Brussels, 16/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - In its communication of 23 September, the European Commission is to propose that aid to cotton be decoupled from production, and thus come under the "green box" category according to WTO terminology (programmes which do not target specific products and which include direct support to farmers' revenue with no link to either production levels or current prices). By committing to abolish all Community support to cotton under the amber box (internal support...

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