Brussels, 08/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - COPA (the Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations) and COGECA (the General Committee for Agricultural Cooperation in the European Union), which represent 30 million EU farmers and their families, are “unhappy” about the provisional agreement between EU and US negotiators to resolve the long-running dispute over US hormone-treated beef (see EUROPE 9896).
Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General of Copa-Cogeca, said that it was crucial that all...