Spanish producer-exporter federation Fepex is celebrating the first step in securing reform of the EU entry price system.

Growers and traders from Spain have long complained about the system whereby 15 fruit and vegetable lines produced in the EU are sheltered from international competition.

At a meeting on 1 June, a Spanish delegation to a petitions committee of the European parliament secured an agreement to reform the system. Spain’s main bugbears are imports of tomatoes and courgettes, although the system also includes imports of top fruit, stonefruit and citrus and cucumbers.

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