INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU SUGAR INDUSTRY WANTS GLOBAL AGREEMENT LIMITING SUBSIDIES
March 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Association of Sugar Producers (CEFS) and the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors (EFFAT) have called for the European Union (EU) to push for a global agreement ending all subsidies and other trade-distorting policies affecting the sugar sector. The call, made at an annual meeting in Brussels, with the European Commission, comes as nervousness increases within the EU sugar beet sector about the end of Europe’s production and import quota system in 2017. A CEFS memorandum said the industry ...
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