Brussels, 30/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - At its meeting next Tuesday, the European Commission will pass a proposal aiming to simplify the common organisation of the market in goat and sheep meat by introducing a fixed annual premium for farmers.
The current premium system used a basic price each marketing year to calculate the value of the sheep premium which is "seasonalised" for sheep carcasses (i.e. which takes account of changes in the price of lamb/mutton on the market). The single...