“Each producer must recover the losses incurred during that period. The total value of damages claimed is EUR1.19 million for cucumbers and over EUR275,000 for tomatoes,” the minister told a news conference.
Early June, Tabara said Romanian cucumber producers would be reimbursed with up to EUR247,200 for losses estimated to reach EUR9 million by August but the European Commission has raised the value of damages payable to vegetable producers for the E.coli scare from EUR150 million to EUR210 million.