CAP REFORM
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTOBACCO growing subsidies in the European Union (EU) will from 2010 be completely de-linked from production, the EU Council of Ministers have decided at a special meeting on Common Agricultural Policy reform. Generally ignoring calls for restraint from the European Parliament, ministers did however decide that de-coupling should be introduced over four years from 2006, when member states can link 60 per cent of subsidies to production. Although not compulsory, ministers stressed that coupled payments could be granted to producers in economically ...
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