Press releases
Increase of the support to the vegetables sector after the E-Coli crisis
29/07/2011
Member States agreed to a Commission proposal to increase the EU support under the emergency plan for vegetable producers affected by the E-Coli crisis from € 210 million to € 227 million. This will allow the Commission to pay 100% of the demands for compensation from the different Member States.
€ 37.6 million EU support for the promotion of agricultural products
05/07/2011
The European Commission has approved 26 programmes in 13 Member States to provide information on and to promote agricultural products in the European Union. The total budget for the programmes, which will run for between one and three years, is €75.1 million, of which the EU will contribute €37.6 million (50%).
