EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOOD COMMITTEE CHAIR LOOKS TO CAP REFORM TO PROMOTE COMPETITION IN EU FOOD SECTOR
November 1st, 2007
BY CHRIS JONES, in Brussels
ANOTHER major round of reforms to that most controversial of European Union (EU) programmes - the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - are planned for 2008, but will the changes mean that life becomes easier or harder for European food companies? Just-food.com spoke to Neil Parish MEP, who chairs the European Parliament's influential agriculture committee in Brussels.
Despite the constant reforms that have been made o the CAP since the 1990s, food production subsidies still account for by far the biggest share of EU budget spending, ...
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