Brussels, 04/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 20 December, the European Commission adopted a proposal to extend for two more marketing years (2007/08 and 2008/09) the current potato starch production quotas. Potato starch is a direct competitor of cereal starch (mainly from maize and wheat). The Commission says that some changes will be necessary because of surplus on the EU market and tight competition on the starch market but wants to keep things unchanged for the moment because the changes to...