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The maximum amount of aid granted to an individual enterprise will not exceed EUR 400 000 over any period of three fiscal years, or EUR 500 000 if the enterprise is situated in a less favoured area.
The objective of the notified measure is to reduce damages caused to the crops grown under glass (in particular tomatoes and other solanaceaes) by the lepidopteron "Tuta absoluta". More information on:Tuta absoluta

WRITTEN QUESTION P-0581/10 by Gabriel Mato Adrover (PPE) to the Council.
A few weeks ago the Commission and the Moroccan Government concluded the negotiations aimed at updating the association agreement with Morocco. While conducting the negotiations the Commission promised, among other measures, to raise the import quotas for Moroccan tomatoes and other agricultural products considered sensitive from the point of view of European producers, first and foremost Spanish producers.
Appearing for the first time before Parliament’s Agriculture Committee in her capacity as president-in-office of the ‘Agriculture’ Council, Elena Espinosa said that attempts were being made to improve the checks on Moroccan imports with a view to ensuring compliance with the provisions laid down in the agreement.
Can the Council Presidency say what steps are being taken or will be taken in the EU in order to improve the checks? Will it call for a change to the entry price arrangements for sensitive products so as to avoid irregularities?
Tomatoes

Press release no. 3/2010 02 February 2010
The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has helped settle a dispute about access to documents between the European Anti-Fraud-Office, OLAF, and two Belgian companies. On the basis of a request made by OLAF in 2002, the Belgian customs authorities investigated whether the two companies had used false Spanish certificates to import bananas from Latin America at a preferential tariff. The investigation is still ongoing.
In order to clarify the facts and to potentially prepare an appeal, the companies asked for access to relevant documents held by OLAF. OLAF, however, refused to release most of the documents. The Ombudsman inspected the documents concerned and made a friendly solution proposal, in which he asked OLAF to reconsider its position. OLAF accepted the proposal and released all the documents.
The Ombudsman's decision is available at:
The Ombudsman's decision