Addressing EU ministers for agriculture meeting in Brussels on Monday 19 February (see EUROPE 11935), European Commissioner Phil Hogan set out the broad lines of greening provisions within the framework of the future CAP post-2020. On one hand, he proposes “new conditionality” of aid and, on the other, voluntary provisions for encouraging farmers to go further than the base frame.
The current CAP is “less ambitious than planned” from an environmental point of view as well as being...