Coughlan aims to clarify sugar reforms

SUGAR produced in the first year of the European Union reform of the industry will be liable for a restructuring levy.

However, in the event of the quota being renounced for the second year, the levy will not be payable in that and subsequent years.

This has been clarified by the European Commission, according to Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan, who met with EU Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel in Brussels yesterday.