On Monday 20 November, the French Minister for Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, asked the European Commission to agree to a derogation in 2024 from certain rules on good agricultural and environmental condition 8 (GAEC 8), which concerns the use of set-aside land, in order to boost production in the context of the war in Ukraine.
France was supported by several countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia, Poland, Finland, the...