Dairy UK asks for EU to keep deadlines

British dairy representatives want the EU to stick to its 2013 deadline for ending export subsidies, despite proposals from other nations for the aid to finish sooner.

Dairy UK said the latest proposals from non-EU countries, including Australia, New Zealand and the US, would require the EU to cut export subsidies by 80% in volume and value terms by 2010. Half the cuts would also take place in the first year.
At last year’s World Trade Organisation talks the European Commission said export subsidies would be cut by 2013.
But the new proposals for 80% cuts before 2010 were not what the EU signed up to, says Jim Begg, director general of Dairy UK. He wants the EU to resist these proposals, saying the bloc