Brussels, 21/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said in Mainz on Sunday 20 May that member states had reached agreement on the sensitive issue of the public purchase of maize. The political agreement on setting the intervention mechanism at zero for maize will, however, have to be approved by European agriculture ministers on 11 June (see EUROPE 9414).
The efforts expended by the German presidency on its compromise proposal on maize intervention finally...