date:Apr 25, 2014
European Union farm lobby Copa-Cogeca called on the 28-nation bloc to tighten controls on citrus imports from South Africa to prevent the introduction of the plant disease black spot.
The EU should widen proposed control measures to include all South African citrus, including fruit for processing, Copa-Cogeca Secretary General Pekka Pesonen wrote in a letter to EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg. Imports from zones with black spot disease should be automatically banned the moment six contaminate