BULGARIA QUOTAS
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE BULGARIAN government has negotiated the right for its tobacco-growing sector to claim direct farm payments from the European Union (EU) representing 47,137 tonnes of production per annum. European Commission officials have told World Tobacco that the notional quota was part of an agriculture agreement within Bulgaria's talks on joining the EU, which it is expected to do by January 2007. By then, the EU should have abolished production-linked payments for the tobacco sector, converting them into direct payments. These will be paid to Bulgarian ...
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