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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9034

24 September 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
EU declassifies 1.8 million tonnes of sugar

Brussels, 23/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the European Commission's Sugar Management Committee accepted the European Commission's proposal to declassify 1.8 million tonnes of sugar from the quota system for the 2005-2006 marketing year. This will push the surplus sugar from the EU market onto the world market and has been criticised by Australia, Brazil and Thailand, the three countries that appealed to the World Trade Organisation in May this year against the European sugar export...

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