Comitato delle regioni - Funding for farmers

Comitato delle regioni

(...) Funding for farmers must be fairer and more focused on local and regional requirements, and the Committee of the Regions (CoR) has urged in an own initiative opinion on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, adopted at its Plenary Session on Wednesday.The opinion, drafted by René Souchon (FR/PES), President of the Auvergne regional council and a former French agriculture minister, is the CoR's response to the call by EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloş for input from local and regional actors on the future of one of the EU's most controversial and expensive policies.Commissioner Cioloş attended the CoR Plenary Session for the second time in succession to hear the Committee's position, and took advantage of his visit to ask for a further opinion from the CoR, this time on how to give greater support to local agricultural marketing (the so-called 'short-circuit') and to promoting small-scale, high quality agricultural output. (...)