On Friday, 22 July, the European Commission proposed, in the context of the war in Ukraine provoked by Russia, arranging a temporary short-term derogation from the rules on crop rotation and maintenance of non-productive features on arable land (set-aside).
“[In] the short term, we simply cannot ignore the immediate benefits of keeping significant areas of our agricultural open land for production: every tonne of wheat that we export will help to address global hunger,” commented...