BREAD, DAIRY, CEREALS SECTOR FACE NEW LIBERALISATION PUSH FROM EUROPEAN COMMISSION
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released its long awaited 'common agricultural policy' (CAP) health check proposals, pushing for further reforms exposing key food production sectors to global market demand. The policy paper (a 'Communication') notably suggests immediately widening milk quotas, so that dairy product manufacturers are increasingly free to buy as much ingredients as they need. Brussels is also suggesting that stockpiling cereals to pump up prices be stopped, except for bread-making wheat, for which so-called 'intervention' controls ...
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