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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

EU gives impetus to sugar restructuring scheme

Brussels, 26/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - European Union agriculture ministers reached an agreement by qualified majority on Wednesday 26 September on improvements being made to the sugar sector restructuring scheme. The main innovation is that beet growers will be allowed to directly ask to renounce sugar quotas. Hitherto, only industries had been allowed to do so.

These changes, which are nonetheless criticised by several member states (Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovakia) should...

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