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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9955

5 August 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
French fruit and vegetable producers will have to repay €300 million

Brussels, 04/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - The French agriculture minister decided just before the 29 July deadline that he would begin recovering the €338 million called for by the European Commission after it ruled that aid had been paid illegally to French fruit and vegetable producers between 1992 and 2002. Farmers will, then, have to begin repaying sums of between €222 (involving some 33,000 farmers) and €1,161,500 (around 10 farms will be affected). To the €338 million in illegal...