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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9662

17 May 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture-fisheries council
Political agreement on plant protection products expected on Monday, and debates on food prices and WTO

Brussels, 16/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - European Union agriculture ministers, meeting in Brussels from 11.00am on Monday 19 May, are expected to reach political agreement on new rules for the marketing of plant protection products (“pesticides regulation”). The Council, which will be chaired by Slovenian Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Iztok Jarc, will be updated by Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel on the latest state of play in WTO trade liberalisation talks in Geneva. There...

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