EU shake-up on farming subsidies

The EU has unveiled a plan for reform of its Common Agricultural Policy, the rural payments system that costs more than EUR 40bn a year.

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Tuesday, 20.05.2008.

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The EU has unveiled a plan for reform of its Common Agricultural Policy, the rural payments system that costs more than EUR 40bn a year. Proposals have been drawn up aimed at making farming more efficient and environmentally friendly. EU shake-up on farming subsidies They aim to scrap milk quotas and give farmers incentives to look after the countryside rather than producing food. EU agriculture boss Mariann Fischer Boel wants to move away from the existing support systems for farmers The idea is to make farmers more responsive to the demands of the market - and more at its mercy. The draft policy requires approval by all 27 EU member states and the European Parliament. It calls for milk quotas to be gradually increased, then scrapped by 2015. The commission wants to progressively cut subsidies to farms, and shift the money saved to protect and promote traditional family farms. The UK has urged the EU to go much further and get rid of direct payments to farmers altogether. One French farmer told the BBC the subsidies should stay as a safety net. "Our prices are very high now so we don't need anything, any safety net," said Langlois Berthelou. "But when the price will get back down ... we will not have any more efficient tool. "We don't have to forget that in Europe we have very heavy burden with all the environmental and labor legislation which farmers around the world, in some other parts, don't have."

EU shake-up on farming subsidies

They aim to scrap milk quotas and give farmers incentives to look after the countryside rather than producing food.

EU agriculture boss Mariann Fischer Boel wants to move away from the existing support systems for farmers

The idea is to make farmers more responsive to the demands of the market - and more at its mercy.

The draft policy requires approval by all 27 EU member states and the European Parliament.

It calls for milk quotas to be gradually increased, then scrapped by 2015.

The commission wants to progressively cut subsidies to farms, and shift the money saved to protect and promote traditional family farms.

The UK has urged the EU to go much further and get rid of direct payments to farmers altogether.

One French farmer told the BBC the subsidies should stay as a safety net.

"Our prices are very high now so we don't need anything, any safety net," said Langlois Berthelou.

"But when the price will get back down ... we will not have any more efficient tool. "We don't have to forget that in Europe we have very heavy burden with all the environmental and labor legislation which farmers around the world, in some other parts, don't have."

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