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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9597
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

Sugar quotas reduced by 2.5 million tonnes in 2008

Brussels, 07/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - Amendments brought to the sugar sector restructuring system at the end of 2007 should see sugar quota reductions of 3.8 million tonnes (in addition to the 2.2 million tonnes already withdrawn from the market). The target has not yet been reached since, according to information provided by member states on 31 January (within the relevant revenue and expenditure account), 2.09 million tonnes of under-utilised quota sugar will be withdrawn from the market...

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