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Press Statement on vote of the European Parliament to prolong the sugar quota regime to 2020

PROFEL Fruit Processors are disappointed at today's EP vote to prolong the sugar quota regime until 2020:

“This is a missed chance for liberalisation of the EU sugar market. Prolonging the outdated quota regime beyond 2015 puts the competitiveness of European fruit processors - many of them SMEs - at serious risk. Hopes of fruit processors are now with the Council to support the Commission’s proposal for a quota end in 2015 in the negotiations with the EP.”