CAP reform is not on ice, says Fischler

THE reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has not been put on ice, EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler said in Dublin yesterday.

He said the recent EU Summit made no statements to that effect. He said the heads of state do not expressly rule out the possibility of the mid-term review being adopted before 2006 nor do they prevent decisions from not being implemented until after 2006.

“The Summit’s decisions have not changed our objectives or the need to continue with the process of reforming the CAP.”