EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE ACCEPTS PREPACKAGING LIBERALISATION
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHERE are clear signs that the European Parliament may give into pressure from the European Commission and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers and accept close-to-maximum liberalisation of EU prepackaging size restrictions. The parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee has indicated that MEPs will accept the abolition of various EU-approved prepackaging sizes for food and drink products previously backed by the parliament: drinking milk, butter, ground or unground roasted coffee, dried pasta, rice and brown sugar. The ...
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