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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10914

5 September 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture
Albert Dess (EPP) wants greening postponed

Brussels, 04/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - A number of MEPs are concerned at the complexity of the new rural development rules (second pillar of the common agricultural policy - CAP) and want to postpone the rules on the greening of aid to 1 January 2016 instead of 1 January 2015.

A proposal in this sense was presented on Monday 2 September during the EP agriculture committee by Albert Dess (EPP, Germany) in his report on transition provisions for rules on direct payments, rural development and...