AIDE SAYS FRANCE SUPPORTS OIL AND FATS TAX France supports the European Commission's plans for a European Community (EC) fats and oils tax but objects to some of its oilseeds proposals, Yves Van Haecke, an aide to French agriculture minister Francois Guillaume said. He told a general assembly of France's Oilseeds Federation (FFCOP) that a suppression of monthly increases of oilseed support prices, for example, was unacceptable. French oilseeds experts added the principle of a single tax regardless of varying quality was clumsy and capable of unneccessarily alienating exporters such as the U.S.