Press Release: Avian flu: Commission proposes ‘upstream’ measures to support poultry market

The EU's Management Committee for eggs and poultry on 20 July 2006 approved a European Commission proposal to allow the co-financing by the EU budget of measures to support the poultry market, because of the negative effects of the recent avian flu crisis. The proposal specified the type of measures which could be 50 percent financed by the EU. It focused on 'upstream' measures, i.e. those which aim to temporarily reduce production, such as the destruction of hatching eggs.

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