European Parliament members to play part in CAP reform

Members of the European parliament will play a pivotal role in the reform of the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy when they debate and vote on the proposals tomorrow and Wednesday.

The vote, with its myriad of amendments, will fix the parliament’s mandate for the negotiations to follow with the Council, represented by the Irish presidency and Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney and his team.

However, the lobbying will continue up to the end, as the parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee has voted down many of the reforms devised by the European Commission, coming much closer to the position of some of the member states instead.