COPA and COGECA have read with great interest the draft scientific opinion on the implications of animal cloning on food safety, animal health and welfare and the environment published by EFSA

Agricultural employers present a report

The European Commission today unveiled its blueprint for streamlining and further modernising the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy

The European Union today unanimously agreed to suspend import duties on all cereals except oats, buckwheat and millet for the current marketing year - which ends on June 30, 2008

Copa-Cogeca - EU farm leaders react to Commission’s Health-Check proposal

The eligible area of 2 million hectares has been exceeded

Austria, Germany (3 Länder), Hungary, Italy (3 regions), Lithuania and Luxembourg

A total of € 145.2 million of EU farm money unduly spent by Member States is claimed back as a result of a decision adopted by the European Commission

The levies for Member States exceeding their milk production quotas come to almost € 221 million for the 2006/07 marketing year, according to a provisional calculation by the European Commission, based on Member States' annual declarations

The Commission has agreed to an indicative budget of € 510 million to wine producing Member States for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards in the 2007/2008 marketing year