Brussels, 02/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Court of First Instance has ruled, in a judgment delivered on 1 July, that the Commission was right to call for the re-payment of over €100 million worth of aid paid to Spain under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the cultivation of flax and hemp. The Commission's decision in 2005 (see EUROPE 8939) was taken, a press release of the time says, because of the “widespread fraud” in the flax sector in marketing years 1998/1999 and...