Before a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, Agriculture Minister István Nagy called for the protection of farmers and predictable market conditions.
The meeting's agenda includes discussing the future of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and setting fishing quotas for the Baltic states, the minister told journalists. The meeting seeks to find community-level solutions to problems in food chain supplies including animal and plant diseases, he said.
"We can see the problems in the fish stocks in the oceans, though we need to seek out solutions under which the economic and social situation of the residents of seaside countries are taken into account," he said.
Nagy noted that ten more issues had been added to the meeting's agenda including seal hunting and reducing the population of the European cormorants that pose a great threat to fish stocks.