On Monday 10 January, the European Commission said that it had sent letters to countries late in submitting their strategic plans implementing the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski told members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture that 19 countries have now submitted their strategic plans (compared to 18 previously, with Lithuania being the 19th country to do so). “I hope that very soon we will receive the...