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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8492

27 June 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council
Agreement on CAP reform respects ideas behind Commission proposals

Luxembourg, 26/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday morning in Luxembourg, after more than eleven months of discussions (since the publication in July 2002 of the guidelines on the "mid-term review"), three weeks of negotiations and a night that resembled a marathon, Agriculture Ministers from EU Member States reached a political agreement concerning reform of the common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Reform plans for partial decoupling of direct aid, an increase of up to EUR 1.2 bio annual...

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