ROMANIA AGREEMENT

BY KEITH NUTHALLROMANIA'S meat processing industry will be given three extra years - to the end of 2009 - to modernise and upgrade 26 slaughtering and meat processing units and two poultry processing plants to meet European Union (EU) standards, if the country joins the EU in January 2007. In a deal on agricultural matters that should help its accession, Romanian food production in general will receive Euro 4.72 billion in EU subsidies over 2007-2009, with Euro 3.92 billion allocated for Common Agricultural Policy supports and rural development, and around Euro ...


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