Brussels, 26/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 24 January, the proposal setting up voluntary modulation of direct aid to increase available funding for rural development was almost unanimously rejected by the European Parliament's agriculture committee. The matter will again be put to the vote in a plenary vote at the Strasbourg session of 12-15 February.
On 14 November 2006, the EP rejected this voluntary modulation mechanism (see EUROPE 9306). The proposal, deriving from the European Council...