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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9414
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

Commission wants to make sugar restructuring more attractive

Brussels, 25/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 2 May, the European Commission is expected to adopt proposals by EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel to provide greater incentives for sugar farmers and the sugar industry to implement the sugar industry restructuring plans, introduced in the 2006 reform of the common organisation of the EU sugar market. The proposed changes, which member states would have to adopt by October 2007, aim to take out about 3.8 million tonnes of...

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