Agriculture and Fisheries Council, 16 July 2018

Summary:

A meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council was held on 16 July 2018. The agenda included the following items:

• Presentation of the rotating presidency's work programme and priorities in the areas of agriculture and fisheries;
• Exchange of views on the simplification and subsidiarity elements in a proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2020;
• Briefing on the issue of conditionality of CAP payments;
• Information on the drought in Poland, the latest developments in the process of selecting a EU single candidate for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the African swine fever.