Agricultural Reform and the mid term review
support price cuts for all but Sugar
Aim to make direct payments production neutral
favour small producers over big (Minimum 1500 euro payments, degression above 50,000 euro
heavy regulation (environment, food safety, animal welfare)
budget broadly frozen until 2006
no discussion of frontier protection
France and Ireland likely to resist; Germany mainly interested in cost but also food safety and environment; UK worried about impact on big farmers