In her draft opinion on the performance framework for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), discussed on Wednesday 8 April, Maria Noichl (S&D, German), rapporteur for the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee on this issue, calls for the reintroduction of impact indicators, considered essential for assessing the overall performance of the policy in relation to its objectives.
She warns of a major risk to budgetary responsibility in the current proposal and calls for the powers of...