Post 2020 Common Agricultural Policy reform package
In public session the Council discussed a presidency progress report on the work carried out in the Council on all the Commission proposals of the CAP reform package, which includes regulations on CAP strategic plans, financing, management and monitoring of the CAP, and the common organisation of agricultural products.
The Austrian presidency has worked hard to complete a first analysis of the CAP reform proposals. Today we gave our work the finishing touch, and are glad to leave our successors with a clear picture of where the Council stands, so that they can keep up the momentum and achieve as much progress as possible during the next 6 months. We wish them good luck. – Elisabeth Köstinger, Austrian Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism and President of the Council
EU bioeconomy strategy
In public session the Council exchanged views on the role that agriculture and forestry can play in the updated EU Bioeconomy Strategy. In their interventions ministers focused in particular on how to unleash the potential of bioeconomy, boost economic growth and employment in rural areas, and create opportunities for primary producers.
Bioeconomy comprises those parts of the economy that use renewable biological resources from land and sea to produce value-added products such as food, feed, materials and energy.
- More information about the AGRIFISH Council meeting of 17-18/12/2018
- Full document with the outcome of the council meeting - available via the link below.
