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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8423

19 March 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council
Presidency notes progress in work on CAP reform but hardest yet to come- Fischler ready to make concessions on rural development

Brussels, 18/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The President of the Council, Georgios Drys, believes that the Agriculture Council has made progress in negotiations on reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), which focussed on milk and dairy products, cereals, rice and rural development on Monday in Brussels. But, as the Presidency pointed out, the Agriculture Ministers have not yet examined in detail what will doubtless be the sticking point of reform, the decoupling of production aid, which...

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