COMMON ORGANISATION OF AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
(16922/06)
Letter from the Chairman to Lord Rooker,
Minister for State for Sustainable Farming and Food, Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Your Explanatory Memorandum (EM) on the above
proposal was considered by Sub-Committee D at its meeting of 31
January 2007.
As you know from your discussions with Sub-Committee
D on 25 October 2006, we agree that the CAP simplification agenda
is an important one and we are therefore pleased that the Government
is supporting the proposal for a single CMO.
We were interested to note both the RIA's analysis
that the simplicity of a single legal text could be a useful contribution
to the debate on the future of the CAP and the comment in the
EM that any move in the direction of further CAP reform may cause
problems for some Member States. CAP reform is, as you know, a
matter to which we attach importance, and we plan to begin an
inquiry later this year into the scope for this as part of the
2008 Health Check.
In these circumstances we are content to release
the proposal from scrutiny but we would be grateful if you would
keep us closely informed as to progress on this dossier and in
particular on the extent to which linkages are drawn in the course
of negotiations with CAP reform discussions.
31 January 2007
Letter from the Chairman to Lord Rooker
Your Explanatory Memorandum on the above proposal
was considered by Sub-Committee D at its meeting of 21 February
2007.
The Proposal is a logical one. We welcome the
Government's intended approach and we are thus content to release
the Proposal from scrutiny.
21 February 2007
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