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The update of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) rules, provisionally agreed by the Parliament’s and Council’s negotiators on 12 October and endorsed by the Council’s Special Committee on Agriculture on 15 November, was given a green light from the Parliament’s Agriculture Committee. The agreed text now needs to be confirmed by the Parliament as a whole, probably during its 11 - 14 December plenary session in Strasbourg, and the Council. It should enter into force as of beginning 2018. More information

MEPs gave the go-ahead to the new EU law on organic production and labelling, as agreed by Parliament’s negotiators and EU governments on 28 June and endorsed on Monday by the Council’s Special Committee on Agriculture. The agreed text still needs to be approved by the Parliament as a whole and the Council before it can enter into force. It shall apply from 1 January 2021. More information

EU member states agreed today (20 November) to a new set of rules for organic farming, simplifying the system and creating a level playing field for EU produce and imports. The European Parliament’s agriculture committee will vote on the rules on Wednesday. More information

The Annual work programme was adopted today (15 November), and as in previous years will allow EU funding from the common agricultural policy budget to be used to co-finance promotional campaigns for EU agri-food products. A total of €179 million will be available for promotion programmes selected for EU co-financing in 2018, compared to €142 million in 2017. The calls for proposals for specific campaigns will be published in January 2018. More information

At the request of the AGRI Committee, Policy Department B produced three studies on the: Possible impact of Brexit on the EU budget and, in particular, CAP funding , EU-UK agricultural trade: state of play and possible impacts of Brexit and Possible transitional arrangements related to agriculture in the light of the future EU-UK relationship: institutional issues.