The future Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council (from January to the end of June 2021) “is committed” to concluding negotiations between EU institutions on the CAP in spring 2021, the Portuguese Agriculture Minister, Maria Do Céu Antunes, said on Tuesday 15 December.
At the ‘Agriculture ‘EU Council in Brussels, she gave a brief presentation of the priorities of her country’s Presidency in the first half of 2021. CAP reform will be at the heart of the programme. She spoke of “a very strict timetable” to be put in place in order to reach an agreement on the post-2020 CAP in the spring of 2021. The aim is to take the necessary decisions to implement the new CAP from 1 January 2023.
The second priority of the Portuguese Presidency will be food safety, when the European Commission presents the impact studies and proposals resulting from the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy. The Minister indicated that she would detail her programme at the first EU Council meeting under the Portuguese Presidency in January 2021. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)