CAP REFORM – PLENARY
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has supported its agriculture committee's tough line over European Commission plans to decouple tobacco growing aid from production, by insisting that Member States be forced to transfer only 30 per cent of existing subsidies to direct farm payments. What is more, MEP's have called for national governments to use production-linked subsidies "with great flexibility....to maintain the production in areas where the continuation is essential for social and economic reasons." Its consultative amendments to the reforms also ...
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