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EU agriculture ministers have formally adopted the legal texts of the sugar reform, agreed last November, after a last-minute objection from Poland threatened to remove the item from the agenda [...]

With the expiry of the final deadline for submission to Brussels of national implementation plans on July 31, the picture for implementation of the Single Farm Payment in the EU-15 [...]

Last year's reform of the CAP will probably have a fairly gentle impact on the EU-15's output of most farm commodities over the next few years, according to a special [...]

The EU has agreed a compromise on tagging sheep and goats individually as a further bulwark against the spread of animal disease, building in the obligation to introduce an electronic [...]

The following is a consolidated, sector-by-sector version of the final agreement on CAP reform to emerge from the Farm Council in Luxembourg on Thursday. Decoupling A (decoupled) single farm payment [...]

EU farm ministers are to reconvene in Luxembourg next Tuesday afternoon (June 17), following the failure of this week's Farm Council meeting to make any substantial progress on CAP reform. [...]

EU member states' commitment to thrashing out a compromise agreement on CAP reform appears to be strengthening, but within their ranks none is yet taking a strong enough lead to [...]

Figures published by the European Commission on Monday show an EU cereals market in good condition, with the exception of rye and barley, while the meat sector is going through [...]

Initial reactions to the CAP midterm review proposals were outlined by each of the 15 member state farm ministers in turn at the Farm Council on Monday. The main views [...]

Detailed draft negotiating mandates for EU enlargement in the agriculture sector have been released to member states this week by the European Commission. The nine so-called Draft Common Positions (DCPs) [...]

EU likely to be squeezed out of world beef markets It is becoming increasingly apparent that the European Union may be squeezed out of the world beef export market in [...]

The EU's Scientific Veterinary Committee has given the strongest indication so far that the world-wide ban on UK beef exports could be partially lifted in the foreseeable future. At its [...]

In the autumn of 1995 it was clear that Commissioner Fischler saw the need for further significant adjustments to the CAP, and the general direction of these reference was also [...]

EU farm ministers this week adopted a Commission proposal to establish staging points for animals in transport throughout the KU. The decision was the only concrete result to emerge from [...]

EU agriculture ministers reverted to traditional defence of their cereal farmers at this week's agriculture Council in Luxembourg by demanding an end to the proposals for cuts in arable aid [...]

The first farm Council under the Dutch presidency ended after only four hours on Monday, with ministers formally adopting the Commission proposal to change the financial support system in the [...]

Milk quotas could be retained but made more 'flexible,' support prices could be reduced but 'differentiated' and compensation could be paid to farmers, according to a personal view of EU [...]

EU farm ministers on Wednesday finally agreed measures worth around ECU 2.5 billion to rebalance the beef market, plus an extra ECU 500m in income support for beef producers, after [...]

EU farm ministers are gearing up for a tough battle over a package of measures to rebalance the beef market at the agriculture Council which begins on Monday, October 28. [...]

Despite the political movement towards alternative solutions for the financing of special beef measures (see preceding article), it is becoming increasingly clear that the European Union will face a financing [...]

The EU Commission has proposed a 5% set-aside for the coming year while there is no indication that the EU might lift its tax on cereals exports. The world, however, [...]

This week's June Council finished late on Wednesday night with ministers celebrating a deal on allocating 850 million ECU of aid to beef producers and downplaying the failure to agree [...]

EU farm ministers ended two days of negotiations in Luxembourg on Monday and Tuesday by agreeing that the ban on exports of UK beef and cattle could begin to be [...]

The United States Trade Representative Mickey Kantor has today (Friday) sent a letter to the EU delegation in Geneva formally asking for consultations on the Eu's hormone ban, under WTO's [...]

EU farm ministers this week finally agreed a featherweight reform of the EU sugar regime on the basis of two compromise papers put forward by the French Presidency at a [...]

EU management committees, both `horizontal' (ie. across all sectors) and sectoral, are intensifying as draft regulations setting out detailed rules have to be published in preparation for the July 1 [...]

EU agriculture ministers will gather in Luxembourg on April 10 to discuss the problems currently affecting the EU's agrimonetary system, and hopefully to agree on a minimalist reform of the [...]

Highly emotional discussions on the welfare of animals in transport and the Commission's proposals for the reform of the wine sector dominated an inconclusive September farm Council, described by Council [...]

EU butter prices are to be reduced by 5% in 1994/95, according to the Commission's agricultural price proposals for next year, which were formally unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday. There [...]

This week's re-opening of consultations between the EC and the US over the Blair House agreement has reinforced a general feeling of confusion over what has and has not been [...]

This week has possibly witnessed more meetings, interviews and comments on the Blair House agreement and the agricultural aspects of the Uruguay Round than any other week in the last [...]

EC farm ministers this week agreed the 1993/94 farm price package, together with a package of othe measures, at a marathon four-day meeting in Brussels. The deal also included agreement [...]

EC farm ministers demonstrated that they were not in a mood for compromise this week as they reach no decisions on the 1993/94 farm price package. This issue, together with [...]

After a decline of 0.6% in 1991/92, Eurostat expects EC pig production (GDP) to rise by 2.5% or 4 184 000 between December 1992 and November 1993 to 173 945 [...]

EC farm ministers spent most of this week's (April 16/17) Council meeting jostling for position in preparation for another global compromise deal in April on the EC farm price package [...]

If the reform of the CAP was the undoubted highlight of 1992, the implementations of these reforms and the associated impact of GATT look set to be the main issues [...]

The Community potato market is currently suffering from a heavy surplus, which many delegates to last week's European Potato Industry conference in London believed was partly structural and due to [...]

EC agricultural producer prices fell by 6.4% in real terms in 1992 - the sharpest annual fall in prices since the current series of records began in 1980. The data, [...]

The critical breakthrough in the six-year-long GATT talks on agriculture finally came at around 17.30 last Friday (November 20) as the EC and US struck a deal on reducing agricultural [...]

'The CAP is now compatible with GATT and recognised as such,'. The EC Commission claims in its highly ingenious study of the relationship between a potential Uruguay Round agreement on [...]

EC Commission and trade experts presented their views on the impact of policy changes on agricultural production and trade, and also on the recently-agreed Commission proposal for a post-1992 agrimonetary [...]

Usage of cereals in EC livestock feeds continues to decline while that of energy-rich and protein-rich products, over half of which are imported, increases. Latest predictions by the EC Commission [...]

After four days of exhausting and often frustrating negotiations, EC farm ministers finally reached agreement on the biggest changes to the CAP in its 30-year history on Thursday evening. This [...]

The Commission's (CAP Reform) proposals are agreed to, subject to the following amendments: I ARABLE CROPS a) Prices and aid (1) The target price for cereals is set at 135, [...]

The Uruguay Round GATT negotiations have assumed a new dimension as a result global political changes, write Philip L. Paarlberg and Stefan Tangermann(*). The conditions for, and implication of, success [...]

EC Commissioners this week agreed the 1992/93 price package, exactly according to Ray Mac Sharry's plans, at Wednesday's regular meeting. It can now go through to the Agriculture Council, although [...]

Agra Europe has obtained details of the document submitted to the Council on Monday (see above). Although it is not clear at this stage precisely how many changes were agreed [...]

'The time for reflection and argument [on CAP reform] is at an end. The final decision-making process must now be engaged.' This was the challenge put before EC agriculture ministers [...]

LEGAL TEXTS OF CAP REFORM PROPOSALS PUBLISHED The EC Commission has now released the draft legal texts implementing the proposed CAP reform measures for a number of sectors, including cereals, [...]

CEREALS SUPPORT WILL BE CUT BY 42 PER CENT The EC Commission is proposing an effective 42% cut in cereal support prices over three years and not the 35% figure [...]