25/05/2018 (Agence Europe) – With a view to simplifying and modernising the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the European Commission announced, on Friday 25 May, that it had adopted new rules that will, for the first time, allow a range of modern technologies to be used when carrying out checks for area-based CAP direct payments. This includes the possibility of completely replacing physical checks on farms with a system of automated checks based on analysis of Earth observation...