EU WINE REFORM UNVEILED BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
July 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE AFTER a years debate, the Commission has finally unveiled its formal proposals to reform the European Union's (EU) Common Market Organisation for wine. Brussels has opted for tough reform - under proposals released today, all EU aid programmes for crisis distillation, support for by-product distillation, private storage aid, export refunds would be abolished. The practice of adding sugar to wine for chaptalisation would also be banned, with producers being forced to use just grapes and unsubsidised must. Crisis distillation would be replaced by ...
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