COMMISSION REASSURES FARMERS OVER WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE COMPLIANCE
July 1st, 2008 BY KEITH NUTHALL EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has assured farmers they will not have to comply with water framework directive to get EU subsidies. Food producers have feared a revamp of EU common agricultural policy financial controls would force them to prove they were managing water supplies to safeguard the health of nearby river systems. They already must comply with the EU nitrates and groundwater directives for subsidies. But, speaking in Zaragoza, Spain, Fischer Boel said the water framework directive was too new to be ...
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