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AGRICULTURE : COMMISSION DOES NOT GIVE IN TO MILK PRODUCERS' ANGER.
June 26, 2009... Despite repeated protests by milk producers, the European Commission does not intend to call into question the milk sector reform decided last year as part of the health check' of the Common Agricultural Policy, which gradually increases quotas before their abolition in 2015. After voicing...

EUROPEAN ELECTIONS : MOVING TOWARDS A THOROUGHLY REVAMPED EP AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE.
June 26, 2009... Several members of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture (AGRI) are to desert its ranks. Its chairman, Neil Parish (EPP, centre-right, UK), will no longer be a part of it. He did not stand. The same goes for his very active vice-president, Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zy Baringdorf...

AGRICULTURE COUNCIL : AGREEMENT ON IMPROVEMENT OF SLAUGHTER CONDITIONS.
June 26, 2009... The Union's agriculture ministers adopted, on 22 June in Luxembourg, a draft regulation aimed at improving animal welfare conditions at the time of slaughter. The new standards will apply from 1 January 2013, rather than 2011 as sought by the European Commission. They will replace the...

AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK : AGRICULTURE MORE RESILIENT TO GLOBAL CRISIS THAN OTHER SECTORS.
June 26, 2009... Because food is a basic necessity, the agriculture sector is showing more resilience to the global economic crisis than other industries. But the risks could increase if the economic downturn deepens, according to a new report by the OECD and FAO releasedon 17 June. Falls in agricultural...

DAIRY PRUDUCTS : COMMISSION DOES NOT GIVE IN TO MILK PRODUCERS' ANGER.
June 26, 2009... Despite repeated protests by milk producers, the European Commission does not intend to call into question the milk sector reform decided last year as part of the health check' of the Common Agricultural Policy, which gradually increases quotas before their abolition in 2015. After voicing...