EU WINE REFORM PROPOSALS COMPULSORY DISTILLATION ABOLITION
June 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
DRASTIC reform of the European Commission's troubled wine sector has been proposed by the European Commission, whose officials are "reasonably confident" the plan will not be unduly delayed or watered down by European Union (EU) member governments. The heart of the reform announced June 22 by the EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel is grubbing up scheme costing Euro 2.4 billion over five years that would take 400,000 hectares of the present 3.4 million hectares out of wine production. The present system of planting rights ...
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