SYNTHETIC ALCOHOL
March 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallTHE EUROPEAN Parliament is resisting European Commission plans to introduce a "lightweight" common market regime for agricultural alcohol production, covering common definitions, improved statistical information, import and export licences and the creation of a sectoral EU committee. The parliament's agricultural committee has asked the Commission to rewrite its proposal so that it also includes synthetic alcohol, which accounts for 50 per cent of EU alcohol consumption. MEP's said by excluding industrial alcohol from European controls, there was a ...
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