Brussels, 15/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - Speaking in Munich on Monday 14 March at a conference on simplifying the common agricultural policy (CAP), Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloº said that the target of a 25% reduction in the administrative burden on farms by 2012 will be comfortably exceeded: red tape will fall by 36%.
He said that simplification must, indeed, be just that. There must be no attempt to bring in political objectives by the back door. Among the instruments for the...