17/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - French Agriculture Minster Bruno Le Maire, deeming the criteria proposed by the European Commission unacceptable, announced on Tuesday 16 February that he was setting a working group on the reform of less-favoured farming areas being undertaken by the European Union. The Commission proposed eight criteria for defining less-favoured farming areas (see EUROPE 9926), and called on member states to test these new criteria by carrying out “zoning simulations”....