Press Release: EUR 27.6 million EU support for the promotion of agricultural products

The European Commission has approved 31 programmes in 19 Member States (Belgium, France, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) to provide information on and to promote agricultural products in the European Union. The total budget of the programmes running between one and three years is € 55.3 million, of which the EU will contribute half. In total 23 Member States submitted 79 programme proposals. The selected programmes cover organic products, agricultural quality products (PDO, PGI, TSG), dairy products, meat, wine, fruit and vegetables, plants, honey and potatoes.