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Article: FLANDERS FRUIT & VEGETABLE AID UNDER SCRUTINY; AID TO AGRANA REFUSED.
- Article from:
- European Report
- Article date:
- October 3, 1998
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The European Commission has decided to investigate a Flemish public aid scheme for the promotion of agricultural products. At present, the EU's Internal Market watchdog harbours doubts about the compatibility with EU law of certain publicly funded promotion campaigns by VLAM, the Flanders promotion centre for agri-marketing. These doubts concern, in particular, the promotion of fruit and vegetables under the Flandria label and the promotion of ham under the Duke of Flanders label in a manner which appears to place excessive emphasis on the origin of the products, and which may therefore infringe the EC Treaty's provision on quantitative restrictions on imports (Article ...