FRANCE ERIKA AID
August 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has approved state aid made by the French government to Atlantic coast fish farmers following the Erika disaster in 1999, although it has branded illegal handouts to farms elsewhere in France. These subsidies - reductions in social security contribution and other government charges - will have to be paid back, although their exact value is not currently known. Brussels had opened an inquiry in 2001, when it quickly approved compensation for mollusc farmers and fishermen, but not other payments. The Commission ruled that ...
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