Cllr Tony Buchanan, 1st Vice President of NAT commission and the CoR rapporteur on the 'Simplification of the CAP (Common Agriculture Policy) met with representatives of Commissioner Hogan and Mr Alyn Smith, MEP to discuss his draft CoR opinion.
Cllr Buchanan has welcomed the request from the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development for the Committee of the Regions to be involved in this exercise which he has signalled as his top priority for 2015.
The participants of the meetings agreed with the stated aim that a simpler framework for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) would increase competitiveness in the agricultural sector. It would also save time and reduce costs for all the actors in the CAP, including farmers, economic operators and public authorities.
