Lapsing vegetables and fruits standards in the European Union
From the 1st of July, despite protests of the big producers, the community level marketing standards for 26 different vegetables and fruits will be terminated.
The EU regulated since the 1980's -sometimes in the tiniest details- what can
be the physical characteristics of the traded fruits and vegetables.
Eurosceptics had the right to jibe descriptions like first class pears must be
at least 55 mm high, or only 10 millimeter curve can be tolerated in every 10 centimeters
in the case of cucumber.
But liberalization is only partial: In the cases often product (for example, at apples, or at
peaches, tomatoes or strawberry) can only be so far difference in shape from
the standard products if the Member State decides, and shall clearly indicates,
that the goods are not the first and not even second classed products – reports
Világgazdaság Online.
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