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Council’s lack of flexibility threatens security for EU farmers, Agriculture Committee Chair Norbert Lins warned, calling on Council to return to proper …
Council’s lack of flexibility threatens security for EU farmers, Agriculture Committee Chair Norbert Lins warned, calling on Council to return to proper negotiations.
A new study from the European Commission has concluded that the current legal framework governing new genomic techniques (NGTs) is insufficient and indicated that new policy instruments should be considered to reap the benefits of this technology. The much-awaited study, which was published on Thursday (29 April), was requested one year ago by the EU Council to clarify the situation following a controversial European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in 2018 that organisms obtained by NGTs should, in principle, fall under the GMO Directive. While the Commission’s study does not question the leg...
SHARING OPTIONS: Rather than rewarding farmers for environmental action, it may only be possible to compensate them. \ Philip Doyle Irish farmers could lose out on €300m of direct income supports under the next CAP, the Irish Farmers Journal has learned. International funding rules look set to scupper any plans to reward farmers for additional environmental action in the next CAP, European Parliament chief negotiator Norbert Lins, a central figure in the negotiations, has warned.
Chair of the European Parliament's agriculture committee Norbert Lins. \ Mathieu Cugnot, EP The European Parliament will continue to seek the full flattening of farm payments in the next CAP, according to its chief negotiator in ongoing reforms. Achieving full internal convergence was not a bad objective for the next CAP, chair of the Parliament’s agriculture committee Norbert Lins told an Irish Farmers Journal webinar. The policy of convergence has been extremely divisive since it was first introduced in 2015. The German MEP hinted at the possibility of flexibility for member states to ...