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The reform therefore expanded the set-aside scheme, making it compulsory for large-scale arable producers, who would receive compensations in return for lost production on set-aside land.
On 20 November 2008 the EU agriculture ministers reached a political agreement on the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy. Among a range of measures, the agreement abolishes arable set-aside....
In addition, EU governments agreed formally to abolish the so-called set-aside, which required some farmland to be kept out of production over the past two decades.