SPAIN COTTON SUBSIDY DECOUPLING REVIEW ECJ ADVICE
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the European Union's (EU) cotton subsidy system, decoupling aid from actual production, should be reviewed, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended. Eleanor Sharpston found fault with the both the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission for not sufficiently assessing the reforms' impact on cotton producers. Notably, "without justifying the chosen 65%:35% split between decoupled and coupled aid, the Council has made choices whose arbitrariness violates the principle of proportionality", ...
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