The reluctance of the European Commission to commit itself.

The reluctance of the European Commission to commit itself, at least at this stage, upon firm proposals for the reform of the European Union's sugar market regime is understandable when the chain of cause and effect of any radical change are entirely realised.

The impact thought of the various policy options,* carried gone out for the Commission in advance of last week's tabling of the sugar policy options paper, indicates near-cataclysmic concatenations for the domestic EU sugar industry--as well as its contingent preferential suppliers in developing countries--of doing almost anything leave out continuing with some mild modification of the status quo