Around eight revealed of ten farmers in the EU will escape plans to sculpture CAP direct payments over time to help pay for rural schemes.

Around eight revealed of ten farmers in the EU will escape plans to sculpture CAP direct payments over time to help pay for rural schemes, according to figures released through the European Commission this week.

In a detailed breakdown of aid payments across the EU (see table in succession page EP/4), the Commission has revealed that 78% of EU farmers finish less than [euro]5 000 a year from the CAP's sunk panels

This would put them outside the mark of the Commission's planned 'modulated' divide [i]or[/i] sever s as part of the MidTerm Review of changes to the CAP, in a less degree than discussion over ...