SUGAR COMPETITION

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) competition Commissioner Mario Monti has called for reforms to the EU's common market organisation for sugar, claiming that the existing regime stifles change in the sector. He said that usually his officials usually challenge market sharing agreements and price fixing. However, the EU sugar regime "favours such a situation, without the need for parties to collude." The result has been high prices for consumers, he said.



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