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France: National aid to the sugar industry for adaptation at the end of sugar quotas

Announcement

31 Mar 2016

On 12 December 2016, the European Commission decided not to raise objections against a scheme notified by the French government in March 2016 which aims to help the national sugar industry adapt to the end of sugar quotas. The scheme has a total budget of 114 million EUR for the years 2017-2020.

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1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

01 Oct 2017

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2020

Updated: 31 Mar 2016
Financial grant

According to France, "The notified scheme seeks to compensate for the additional production costs of sugar factories in the French overseas departments in relation to the metropolitan sugar sector ...

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