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The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (George Eustice)
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council will take place on 12 and 13 December in Brussels. I will represent the United Kingdom.
As the provisional agenda stands, the primary focus for fisheries will be reaching political agreements on 2017 fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of stocks in EU waters, certain non-EU waters and the Black sea.
On agriculture, draft conclusions will be adopted on strengthening farmers’ position in the food supply chain and tackling unfair trading practices. There will be an exchange of views concerning agriculture and climate change, and a progress report on the proposed organics regulation.
There are currently two confirmed any other business items labelled for this Council:
Plant breeders’ rights (tabled by the presidency)
Information on the application of new plant health regulation (tabled by the Commission).
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