EU ROUND UP – CONFECTIONERY INDISTRY FIGHT PROPOSALS TO DELAY END OF EU SUGAR QUOTAS
May 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE'S confectionery industry is fighting rearguard moves at the European Parliament to delay the abolition of European Union (EU) quotas on EU sugar production. A report from French conservative MEP Michel Dantin on the new EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has proposed that the quotas stay until 2020 - they are currently to be phased out by 2015.
However, this move is being opposed by CIUS, the European sugar producers' organisation, supported by European confectionery and sweet bakery association Caobisco. In a statement, the CIUS said ...
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