EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos has unveiled a timetable for reforming the Common Agriculture Policy.

Speaking in Warsaw yesterday (11 May), Ciolos said formal legislative proposals would be presented to EU ministers between June and December next year.

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This gives Ciolos and his officials a fairly tight timetable, given he must stage consultation with the food sector by a major planned CAP conference this July.

The Commission will then release a formal policy paper by December.

Ministers and MEPs would have longer to respond to the proposals – reforms must be introduced by November 2013.

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