Export refunds days numbered

THE end of export refunds was signalled by European Farm Commissioner Marian Fischer Boel at a seminar in Brussels yesterday.

“Don’t bank on these staying around forever,” she told dairy sector stakeholders at the seminar on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) health check now underway.

Ms Fischer Boel said the EU has conditionally agreed within the Doha Round of WTO talks to phase these out by the end of 2013.