The Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU decided after a debate among European agriculture ministers in Luxembourg on Monday 12 June to attempt last-chance talks on organic farming (see EUROPE 11803).
It will hold bilateral meetings with the delegations of all the EU countries to help it prepare a compromise text.
This compromise text should be drafted by 21 June and then discussed at a meeting of the Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA), perhaps on 26 June. The SCA will agree a...