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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9757

9 October 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture
Agriculture committee consensus on health check

Brussels, 08/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - A much smaller reduction in support for farmers than proposed by the European Commission, an increase of just 1 per cent in milk quotas over two years, the option for member states to provide extra help for milk producers and livestock farmers, keeping the link between subsidies and production and retaining intervention schemes for sensitive sectors: these are the main points of the agriculture committee's vote on the CAP “Health Check” adopted on...

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