date:Apr 03, 2013
while some progress has been made in the past on the debureaucratisation in the CAP, the current proposals made by the European Commission were not in line with the objective of simplification. With regard to EU direct payments, there is, at present, just one single premium in Germany that is, moreover, fully decoupled. This means that: unlike most other EU states, we have stopped supporting production in favour of promoting land management only. I expect the other EU states to follow suit as s