EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS FLAX HEMP AID
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a subsidy regime for EU short flax fibre and hemp producers in the old fashioned way - paying money per tonne of fibre. Ministers agreed to extend until the end of the 2007/2008 marketing year processing aid of Euro 90/tonne for short flax fibre and hemp fibre and Euro 160/tonne for long flax fibre until 2007/2008, and Euro 200/tonne for 2008/2009 and thereafter. The council also agreed that some additional aid should be paid in the 2006/7 marketing year in certain regions of the ...
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