Parliament adopts report calling for CAP budget to stay at current level

THE European Parliament yesterday took the first step on the path to reforming the Common Agriculture Policy post-2013.

It adopted a report by Scottish Liberal Democrat member George Lyon that strongly endorses the maintenance of the CAP budget at current levels post-2013.

However, Ireland East Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness said the distribution of the Single Farm Payment, as people in Ireland know it, found little support among Parliament members.