Further exemptions to environmental measures, slashing on-farm checks and a get-out-of-jail free card for farmers that miss requirements due to exceptional circumstances. These these just some of the suggestions put forward by the Commission as part of efforts to lighten the administrative load on farmers. Further exemptions to environmental measures, slashing on-farm checks and a get-out-of-jail free card for farmers that miss requirements due to exceptional circumstances. These these just...| Agricultural and Rural Convention
"The Commission is about to dismantle conditionality requirements that are based on unequivocal scientific evidence, and which it has explicitly acknowledged as being essential tools to address current climate, environmental, and biodiversity issues." That's according to a large number of organisations who have the EU Commission to urge it to reconsider the loosening of the CAP’s green architecture. "The Commission is about to dismantle conditionality requirements that are based on unequi...| Agricultural and Rural Convention
Jean-Marc Desfilhes and Hannes Lorenzen present a history of French farmers' associations and social alliances in light of the recent demonstrations and associated political reactions. They propose: Now is the time to mobilise love and protest to stop the current agricultural policy rollback.| Agricultural and Rural Convention
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to bury the EU’s plans to slash the use and risk of pesticides by half by 2030 once and for all, proposing to withdraw the sustainable use of pesticides regulation (SUR) from the table with hopes to start afresh under the next mandate.| Agricultural and Rural Convention