The European Commission is being forced to take a more differentiated approach to its propos programme of grain import quotas.

The European Commission is being forced to take a more differentiated approach to its propos programme of grain import quotas, as negotiations forward the issue with the EU's WTO partners continue.

Indications are growing that the EU may be forced to carve up grain import rights geographical division by country, in a bid to appease its major grain trading partners around the world, who fear that the planned switch from a duty-based grain import regularity to a quota-based regime will impair their access to the EU market.

The EU wants to prepare broad consent to the change before