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November Agriculture Council

Agriculture and Fisheries Council will take place on 14-15 November in Brussels. I will represent the UK.

As the provisional agenda stands, the primary focus for Fisheries will be a Political Agreement on fishing opportunities for EU vessels for certain deep-sea fish stocks, and an exchange of views on establishing a multi-annual plan for demersal stocks in the North Sea.

On Agriculture there will be an exchange of views on: a report from the Agricultural Markets Taskforce; EU Agricultural Research and innovation; and a study on the impact of concessions in Free Trade Agreements on agricultural products.

There are currently nine confirmed Any Other Business items tabled for this Council:

* Implementation of the landing obligation, including the potential issue of fisheries choke (tabled by the United Kingdom)

* Completion of action plans for EMFF specific ex-ante conditionalities (tabled by the Commission)

* Outcomes from the informal EU Forest Directors General meeting (tabled by the Presidency)

* Animal welfare during transport (tabled by Sweden)

* Animal welfare platform (tabled by the Netherlands)

* Endocrine disruptors (tabled by the Netherlands)

* Ministerial Conference on lumpy skin disease (tabled by Bulgaria and Austria)

* Anti-microbial Resistance (tabled by Denmark)

* Use of geographical indications on foods which imply customary name (tabled by Greece)