EU COMPULSORY WINE DISTILLATION AGREEMENT FRANCE SPAIN GREECE
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) wine management committee has recommended that the European Commission spends up to Euro 131 million on another round of compulsory distillation for French and Italian wine producers. EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel branded the decision "depressing" - the Commission's oncoming wine reform proposals are expected to suggest phasing out such overproduction subsidies. The committee - operating under unreformed EU rules - suggested for France, a maximum of 1.5 million hectolitres of table wine and ...
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