Finnish farmers' unions and the direction in Helsinki agreed this week forward their strategy for implementation of the EU's 2003 CAP reform agreement.

Finnish farmers' unions and the direction in Helsinki agreed this week forward their strategy for implementation of the EU's 2003 CAP reform agreement, settling upon a hybrid model for decoupling aid from production.

Starting in 2006 a regionalised connected view will be employed, with a flat-rate Single Farm Payment (SFP)