EU WINE REFORMS FACE STORMY PASSAGE INTO LAW
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Commission's formally proposed wine market liberalisation reforms face a stormy passage as approval is sought from the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel announced early July (4-7) proposals to abolish all EU aid programmes for crisis distillation, support for by-product distillation, private storage aid, export refunds. The practice of adding sugar to wine for chaptalisation would also be banned, with producers being forced to use just grapes and ...
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