REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU SUGAR QUOTAS COULD STAY AS CAP REFORM DEBATE HOTS UP
October 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is growing on European Union (EU) ministers to give the EU's sugar production quota system a stay of execution. MEPs on the European Parliament's agriculture committee have called for the retention of EU sugar quotas for beet farmers until 2020, rather than follow existing plans to phase them out in 2015. In a debate on the planned reforms to the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), some MEPs said a 2015 abolition would mean some growers would have wasted investment in production capacity. "We have to show some responsibility in ...
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