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Article: Hilary Benn announces action to monitor impact of EU agriculture council's decision on 0% set aside rate for 2008.
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- September 26, 2007
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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 September 2007-UK Government: Hilary Benn announces action to monitor impact of EU agriculture council's decision on 0% set aside rate for 2008(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Secretary of State for Defra, Hilary Benn today announced an immediate programme of environmental monitoring of farmland following the EU Agriculture Council's decision to set a 0% rate of set-aside for 2008.
Mr Benn said that monitoring will be established under Defra's Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory (ACEO) to assess what happens on the ground in the next few months and to provide a firmer basis for future action. If ...