Brussels, 15/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - EU countries made progress on Monday 12 September in the complex matter of bringing several common agricultural policy (CAP) texts into line with the Lisbon Treaty. This was achieved by means of a proposal from the European Commission for a “horizontal” compromise affecting a number of similar arrangements which feature in the four main CAP texts (direct payments, rural development, single common market organisation and the funding of the CAP).
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