23/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - Against the backdrop of suspicions of corruption within the European Commission's DG Agriculture on the transmission of cereal prices to external companies, Portuguese MEP Paulo Casso has asked, on behalf of the group of European Socialists, for the Commission to bring in reforms on the export restitutions mechanism. The Commission has answered that the mechanism is not at fault (as the case is on of corruption and not necessarily fraud), and that it has already...