The priorities of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU (first six months of 2017) in agriculture will be monitoring the market situation, simplifying common agricultural policy (CAP) rules and the future of the CAP.
The Maltese Presidency also takes over on the very sensitive issue of organic farming after the Slovak Presidency pulled out all the stops, though ultimately in vain, to get the EU institutions to agree on a compromise text (see EUROPE 11687).
Malta’s provisional...