At the Agriculture Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 11 December, Romania, supported by the Bulgarian, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish and Slovak delegations, called for an extension until 2024 of the derogations from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) rules on Good Agriculture and Environmental Conditions 7 and 8 (GAEC 7 and 8), which concern crop rotation and set-aside, in order to increase production capacity in the context of the war in Ukraine.
This issue was already put to...