The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU has scheduled a negotiation meeting between EU institutions on 11 May on the most contentious issues of the future regulation on the strategic plans of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), including ‘green architecture’ and the targeting of direct aid.
Indeed, during the trilogue on Friday 30 April, little progress was made in the negotiations on the green architecture of the CAP (eco-regimes and good agricultural and environmental...