PACK SIZES

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE SCOTCH Whisky Association has said that it will resist moves by the European Commission to liberalise Europe's bottle size rules, claiming that re-establishing a free-for-all would not help consumers.Spokesman Campbell Evans was speaking about the formal consultation that Brussels is staging until January 30 over its conclusion that EU rules on packaging sizes could be too restrictive, especially regarding small sizes.Since 1993, off trade spirits sold in the EU have had to be contained in bottles of 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 35, 50, 70 cl, and 1, ...


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