Prospects for the final negotiations on organic farming are not looking good as the Slovak Presidency of the Council is struggling to have the Council mandate amended to finalise the compromise with the European Parliament (see EUROPE 11669).
The last-chance organic farming trialogue on Wednesday 7 December could very well end in failure, so great do the differences appear on major sensitive issues, such as thresholds for pesticide traces and seeds. At the special committee on agriculture...