Council of the EU experts confirmed in the evening of 6 November their approval for the farm side of the omnibus regulation, backing the idea of separating off the agricultural aspects from the other chapters in order to introduce the planned measures in early 2018.
The farm aspects of the omnibus regulation were agreed upon by the Council and European Parliament on 12 October (see EUROPE 11883), but the negotiations on the other aspects of the vast regulation are dragging on, risking...