FISCHER BOEL SAYS DAIRY SECTOR COULD BE THE NEXT CANDIDATE FOR CAP LIBERALISATION REFORM
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE SURVIVAL of the European Union's (EU) production-linked subsidy schemes for the dairy sector are under review and could be under attack soon, European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has told a conference at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She said: "I believe that milk quotas are out of place in the reformed CAP [Common Agricultural Policy]. They put a serious constraint on competitiveness at a time when competitiveness is what we are supposedly encouraging." This system will expire in 2015, but if the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.