Brussels, 21/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - Oxfam has criticised the European Commission's proposal on the reform of the generalised system of preferences, stating that the single criterion retained to decide when a country can be excluded from the GSP ("sliding scale" principle) is "unfair and blatantly protectionist". The Commission proposes that the sliding scale should be used when an imported product from a country exceeds 15% of the total of European imports of this product under the GSP...