The commission is fine-tuning tweaks in the green architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after member states’ agriculture ministers gave the EU executive the green light to reopen the core act. According to the draft text, the new rules are “limited and well-targeted adjustments of the CAP Strategic Plans Regulations to address certain difficulties in implementation”; in practice, they will reduce to the bare minimum those obligatory green farming practices required to receive funds. The commission’s objective is to convert mandatory elements of the CAP’s green architecture – par…