Brussels, 20/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - At the meeting on Tuesday 19 December of EU agriculture ministers, the European Commission called on Member States to speed up their sugar sector restructuring programmes. It also proposed a measure which would allow the EU chemical industry to buy its sugar on the world market: an import quota of 200,000 tonnes of sugar from third countries.
Just as she had done at the previous Agriculture Council (see EUROPE 9326 and 9313), Agriculture Commissioner...