ITALIAN TOBACCO PRODUCERS DECIDE TO MAKE MOST OF EU LIBERALISATION REFORMS
September 1st, 2009
BY ERIC J LYMAN
AS the final phase of the European Union's (EU) tobacco sector reform gets set to go into effect, indications are that Europe's largest tobacco producing country, Italy, is better prepared than it was for the earlier phases.
The EU authorised the reforms to its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) back in 2004, and when the changes it created for tobacco growers went into effect starting in 2006, they sent ripples through the Italian industry that lasted for years.
The region of Apulia, for example, which had been the fourth leading producer of ...
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