EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS EXPORT REFUND ABOLITION PLANS, BEEF, CEREALS
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled imminent plans to abolish the European Union (EU) system of pre-financing export refunds for food, a complex subsidy that has been criticised by the EU financial watchdog, the Court of Auditors. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel said that the system would be replaced with direct controls on beef exports, which the refund pre-financing has encouraged in the past. She told EU ministers that this role was less important now the EU was a net importer of beef. Pre-financed refunds for cereal exports ...
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