Ministers held a debate on the draft European Climate Law and reached an agreement on it (partial general approach). The aim of the EU Climate Law is to set the EU’s climate neutrality goal for 2050.

On 29 September the Competitiveness Council reached an agreement (in a general approach) on the Horizon Europe legislative package

The German Presidency is committed to reach a general approach on the CAP reform package on the next AGRIFISH Council in October. In order to succeed, the main open issues were discussed, namely the CAP green architecture, the direct payments and the New Delivery Model.

The European Commission has registered a Hungarian freshwater fish in the list of EU protected geographical indications for the first time. The certification document was handed over to István Nagy Minister of Agriculture by Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski on the margins of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels, on the 21st of September.

Maintaining the viability of the entire Central European economy is in the best interests of the V4 countries; we must pursue an effective fight against the coronavirus epidemic, whilst “keeping our economies up and running,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after the Friday meeting of the prime ministers of the Visegrád countries (V4: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia) held in Lublin in South East Poland.