At the meeting of the Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA) on Monday 29 May, the Maltese Presidency of the Council failed to obtain the revised Council mandate on organic farming that it had hoped would facilitate agreement with the European Parliament (see EUROPE 11794).
The negotiations on organic farming are, then, once more at a standstill. The final inter-institutional trialogue on the review of organic farming rules, scheduled for Wednesday 31 May, has been cancelled. EU agriculture...