Press Release: Promotion of EU agricultural products outside the EU

The European Commission on 26 October 2005 approved measures to provide information on, and to promote, agricultural products in third countries. Member States had submitted 25 promotion and information programmes to the Commission to be examined. The 15 programmes that were accepted were targeted at the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, China, and Switzerland. The products covered were wine, dairy products, meat, flowers and juices. The estimated expenditure for the EU was to be €13 million (50% of the budget of the programmes).

• Primary Source

European Commission: DG Agriculture and Rural Development: Promotional measures http://ec.europa.eu/comm/agriculture/prom/index_en.htm

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