Smith discusses end of milk quotas with EU commissioner

IRISH concerns about milk quotas and additional modulation were discussed at a trilateral private meeting in Luxembourg yesterday.

Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith, European Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel and EU Farm Council president Michel Barnier, France, attended the meeting.

The main Irish priorities arising in the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy were discussed during what Mr Smith later described as being a very productive and constructive meeting.