1.   The goods are supplied by farmers permitted to sell their surplus after meeting production quotas set by the state.

2.   The reductions resulted from rains and lower export quotas set by the Association of Coffee Producing Countries, an industry alliance.

3.   But local officials are under pressure to meet strict birth quotas set by the government.

4.   His EU counterpart, Emma Bonino, pledged to ignore halibut quotas set by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, which she claims have undercut the European fishermen.

5.   The ministers meeting will also seek to decide on the annual catch quotas set by the EU for all threatened commercial stocks in EU waters.

6.   Gulf Arab monarchies on Sunday condemned some OPEC members for failing to stick to their output quotas set by the oil cartel.