BRUSSELS OPPOSES IMPORT LEVY SUBSIDISING GREEK MEAT PRODUCERS
June 1st, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Commission has told Greece to scrap a meat import levy system that diverts this charge to a fund subsidising Greek farmers. In announcement yesterday (Thursday), the Commission said Greece was breaching European Union (EU) laws on fair trading, because the levy made EU meat traders from outside Greece give financial support to their Greek competitors. A Brussels communiqué said: “Greece currently applies a levy on both domestic and imported meat. However, this levy is used to finance ELOGAK, a public body that grants subsidies to Greek farmers, ...
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