European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan sought to reassure EU farm ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday 16 July, concerned that the complexity of the proposals on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (see EUROPE 12043) could weigh heavily on their national administrations and on farmers.
Hogan said that, since he had been in post, there had been five major simplifications and that the Commission would do all in its power to continue along the same path in the new post-2020 CAP....