EU WINE REFORMS WILL FACE BUMPY RIDE AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, SAYS LEADING MEP
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's agriculture committee has warned the Fischer Boel wine reforms will face opposition from MEPs. Italian conservative MEP Giuseppe Castiglione, handling the brief for the committee, said changes could be sought on proposed labelling rules, which "must not sow confusion", the abolition of chaptalisation and must aid, on which "views differ", and scrapping distillation aid, which raises "environmental concerns".
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THE EUROPEAN Parliament's agriculture committee has warned the Fischer Boel wine reforms will face opposition from MEPs. Italian conservative MEP Giuseppe Castiglione, handling the brief for the committee, said changes could be sought on proposed labelling rules, which "must not sow confusion", the abolition of chaptalisation and must aid, on which "views differ", and scrapping distillation aid, which raises "environmental concerns".
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