Press Release: CAP simplification: Commission well on the way to meeting target to reduce admin burden in agriculture by 25 percent by 2012

Thanks to considerable progress already made in simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy and other measures still to be carried out, the Commission is confident that it will meet its objective of reducing the administrative burden arising from the CAP by 25 percent by 2012. This view was supported by the recently adopted opinion on agriculture of the Stoiber group. A new report highlighted a number of measures taken over the past three and a half years which reduce red tape for farmers, companies involved in the food business and administrations, and promise to reduce annual costs by hundreds of millions of euros , which will render European farming more competitive.

European Commission: SPEECH/09/125: Speaking points on simplification http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/09/125&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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