Brussels, 30/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 30 July, the European Commission adopted a report on the application of voluntary modulation of direct payments, used only by the United Kingdom and Portugal. (Modulation is the system whereby budgetary resources are transferred from direct payments to rural development measures.) These two countries opted for this system in 2005, so that they could go further than what was provided for under the compulsory modulation introduced by the 2003...