At the meeting of the Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA) on Friday 23 July, only Bulgaria and Slovakia indicated that they did not have a mandate from their national authorities to support the regulations reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). All other delegations from EU countries that spoke at the SCA approved the package of three texts (see EUROPE B12768A4).
The SCA meeting was preceded by a final ‘trilogue’ (EU Council, European Parliament and European Commission) which...