Chaired by Julia Klöckner, Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture of Germany, the Council’s meeting focused on discussions on the common agricultural policy reform package, in the view of adopting its general approach in October 2020. Ministers discussed three elements of the future CAP: green architecture, direct payments to farmers and the new delivery model. […]
Precision agriculture provides farmers and livestock farmers with solutions adapted to their context. Data from sensors, cameras, satellites and meteorological stations are processed by algorithms that use Decision Support Tools (DST) to provide advice on the most relevant actions that can be taken. The use of these tools ensures better input efficiency at the farm […]
Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski announced at the informal Council meeting in Koblenz that he is in charge of drawing up a plan to ensure food security in case of future crises. Furthermore, opening up to pressure from MEPs, the Commissioner expressed his willingness to make the €8 current billion (7.5 billion constant euros) recovery funds decided […]
Consultation process The trade policy review process will be based on broad consultations with stakeholders, including through public debates undertaken across the EU Member States and through written submissions. Stakeholders are invited to provide their responses to the questions set out above by 15 September 2020 to the functional mailbox: trade-policy-review-2020@ec.europa.eu. ‘The European Commission is […]
The German Presidency tabled a series of questions ahead of the meeting. The first set addresses the resilience of the food system in the face of this & future crises. The Presidency asks “In your opinion, what do we primarily need to change to make the food supply chain more resilient to crisis-related disruptions in […]
At European Parliament level, Anne Sander MEP was appointed rapporteur for the EPP group in the Agriculture Committee on the EU recovery plan. The European Commission has suspended and then closed the two public aid schemes for the meat storage (beef and lamb) due to their low level of uptake. It has also presented guidelines […]
In July, the news was marked in the United Kingdom by the House of Lords’ rejection of the amendment of the agriculture bill that was intended to give the government the freedom to change regulations to make access to new varietal selection techniques possible. The institution would like to have a public debate beforehand. Following […]
The month of July was marked by the agreement reached between the Heads of State and Government on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework. For the CAP, the agreement was reached on the basis of a proposal by the President of the Council with some minor adjustments to the February 2020 text, including €1.45 million of […]
July was marked as follows: At the level of the European Parliament, the difference between the Envi and Agri Committees persists; the former has made it known to the latter that its withdrawal from the process of drawing up compromise amendments to the Strategic Plans Regulation does not mean stop from the reform process as […]
The AGRI-FISH Council meeting was the first physical meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council since January 2020 and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The session was chaired by Julia Klöckner, the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture of Germany, who has presented the Work programme of the German Council Presidency. Nota bene: The […]