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Farm policy shake-up includes move to cap subsidy payouts
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Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
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November 21, 2007
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Sweeping changes to Europe's Common Agricultural Policy have been
finally revealed.
The so-called health check put forward in Brussels by Agriculture
Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel includes suggestions to limit
payments to the biggest subsidy recipients and to switch more cash
from farmers to rural development budgets.
It also formally signals the end of dairy quotas from 2015 and
her intention from 2009 to scrap set-aside, the controversial
measure that forces farmers to leave land fallow.
She denied her package was a new reform of the Cap which five
years ago underwent the biggest changes seen for four decades.
Instead she is fine-tuning the only EU-wide policy that is paid
for by ...