In response to agricultural anger, the relaxation of CAP ecological rules approved. By adopting the Commission's measures, States are reaching out to farmers and angering environmentalists.
In any case, it only took Member States eleven days to give the green light to what NGOs have described as a real environmental unraveling of the CAP. Proposed on March 15 by the European Commission, the measures were approved on March 16. The measures are intended to ease some of the environmental constraints of the common agricultural policy (CAP)