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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture

EP agriculture committee objects to rapid abolition of maize intervention system

Brussels, 12/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 12 April, the EP committee on agriculture called for withdrawal of the European Commission's controversial proposal to scrap the Community intervention system for the maize market from this year (EUROPE 9329). The report by Belá Glattfelder (EPP-ED, Hungary) was adopted in parliamentary committee by 24 votes to 10 and will be examined by the European Parliament during its plenary session at the end of May, in Strasbourg.

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