Brussels, 21/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - At the meeting on 20 November of European agriculture ministers, eight of the ten new Member States (the exceptions being Slovenia and Malta) called for their single area payment scheme (SAPS), agreed on during accession negotiations, to be extended until the end of the current perspective, that is, until the end of 2013. This system is simpler than the single farm payment scheme introduced by the 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy...