To ease the pressures on EU farmers, on Friday 15 March the European Commission proposed a major overhaul of several elements of the green architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
In particular, it has suggested suspending the set-aside obligation, relaxing the requirements for crop rotation and winter soil cover, and removing the link between the CAP and the Farm to Fork strategy (see EUROPE B13370A10).
The Commission is trying to defend itself as best it can in the face of...