At the Agriculture Council meeting in Brussels on Monday 15 July, Spain, supported by several countries (Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal), will be presenting measures to simplify the rules on the promotion of EU agricultural products (€185.9 million in 2024).
Spain and these countries are calling for the penalty system to be rationalised so that it can be harmonised across Europe, and for justification of costs to be limited to “invoices from the first...