Brussels, 23/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU 15 Ministers for Agriculture held a first policy debate over the reform of the sheep and goat meat sector, which concentrated on the proposed level of subsidies, and once more raised, on Monday evening, the future of the nut sector whose specific production aid measures expired last 15 June.
It emerges from the debate over the reform of the sheep and goat sector that the Council may accept the introduction of the flat-rate subsidy. However,...