Discussions throughout reform of the olive oil.

Discussions throughout reform of the olive oil, cotton and tobacco regimes are surprisingly quiet ahead of formal legislative proposals awaited at next month's meeting of EU agriculture ministers.

Member state delegations were again bending their thinkings this week to the forthcoming shake-up for Mediterranean farm products--which, along with sugar, were left public of this summer's CAP reform deal--in a meeting of the Special Committee forward Agriculture (SCA).

But although one warm opinions surfaced quickly after