EU still chasing superlevy from Italian farmers

Even as the milk quota system comes to an end, the European Commission is still trying to get Italian farmers to pay superlevy bills for producing too much milk as far back as 20 years ago.

The Commission recently referred Italy to the Court of Justice for failure to recover levies due from Italian farmers.

Italy exceeded its national milk quota every year from 1995 to 2009, and the Italian state paid the Commission the due superlevy amounts (€2.3 billion).