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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Council adopts compensation system for outermost regions

Brussels, 23/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 21 May in Brussels, the EU Council of Ministers adopted without debate the regulation allowing the continuation of compensation measures for the period 2007 to 2013 to the outermost regions of the EU. The compensation system mainly aims to facilitate the transport and sale of fishery products (see EUROPE 9415 on the opinion of the EP and EUROPE 9319 on the European Commission's initial proposal).

Under the regulation, the total annual amount...

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