Given the market access offer put forward by the European Commission as part of the trade negotiations with Australia, around 10 EU agriculture ministers (for example, Ireland, Spain, Italy) are reported to have called at the ‘Agriculture’ Council on 30 May for a reduction in the level of ambition (tariff quotas, rates and transitional period) for sensitive products such as beef, sheepmeat and goatmeat, sugar, certain dairy products and rice.
In its offer, the EU provides for an import...