date:Apr 03, 2013
blic funding for public services it is important that all the EU member states have pledged commitment to this key principle. It was also decided that direct payments should in future be more closely linked to environmental performance without the need to withdraw farmland from agricultural production. This is a major success from the German perspective, said Aigner.
Earlier, the EU Commission had backed down from its previous demand for the flat-rate setting aside of farmland. Most of the EU