EU: MEPs call for easing of subsidy “tests”
Members of the European Parliament have called for a “common-sense” easing of “complicated” spot-checks on food industry suppliers, required for the payment of EU subsidies.
The just-food interview - CAP reform
The just-food interview, Neil Parish MEP
Another major round of reforms to the EU’s ever-controversial Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are planned for 2008, but will the changes mean that life becomes easier or harder for European food companies? Chris Jones asked Neil Parish MEP, who chairs the European Parliament’s influential agriculture committee, for his view.
EU: Commission outlines CAP reform strategy
The European Commission has released its long-awaited “health-check” proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy, in a bid to expose key food production sectors to global market demand.
EU: EU dismisses biofuels link to high food prices
Increased production of biofuel crops will not lead to higher food prices, the European Commission has claimed.
