EP DECOUPLING VOTE
February 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament agriculture committee has called for European Union (EU) member governments to have the freedom to link up to 70 per cent of tobacco growing subsidies to production, which would demolish the European Commission's plans to phase out these supports. Part of the Brussels' attempts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy, the Commission has proposed the complete decoupling of tobacco growing aid from production, converting these payments into direct subsidies to farmers, as a transitional stage towards the gradual ...
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