INTERNATIONAL ROUND UP – EU SUGAR QUOTAS TO GO

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Commission has confirmed it is scrapping sugar production quotas across the European Union (EU) in 2015 when proposing a comprehensive reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There have been calls from some member states and MEPs for the quota regime to be renewed, but the Commission has stuck to its guns and will continue with abolition. Only a vote from the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers can now prevent this liberalisation and that is not expected. The move has been welcomed by Caobisco, the EU ...


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