The Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA) adopted, on Monday 20 January, one of the two (most technical) texts on transitional provisions for the rules of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This is the regulation on financial discipline from 2021 and inter-pillar flexibility for 2020.
Only the United Kingdom will abstain when the text is formally adopted at a forthcoming meeting of the EU Council. On 18 December 2019, the European Parliament adopted its position at first reading on the...