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The European Commission has agreed to the request from Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish authorities for a temporary derogation from crop diversification and ecological focus areas rules - two of the so-called greening requirements that member states can choose to place on farmers in order to receive their direct payment. Read more

The Council had an exchange of views on the simplification and subsidiarity elements contained in the Commission proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy after 2020. During the debate ministers shared concrete ideas on how to make life easier for farmers and national authorities. Read more

If a firm sells a product EU-wide, but with compositions that differ between countries, it must not label and brand it in a seemingly identical way, as this may mislead consumers, say MEPs. Read more

The leaders of the European Parliament’s political groups decided on Thursday (5 July) to grant the Environment Committee “shared competence” with the Agriculture Committee in the environmental aspects of the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Read the original post

The wine industry is pushing for the inclusion of its products’ labelling proposals in the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to give self-regulation a “legal basis and certainty”. Read the original post