Tag: CAP reform

The Council has set up a high-level working group to deal with the issues related to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

The EU farm ministers will continue their debate on the various sectors of Common Agricultural Policy reform (CAP) on 8 April.

Two studies of the Commission's proposals for CAP reform, released on 25 March, confirm that the proposed reform would favour the extensification of production and increase farm income by 8.5 percent.

Citizens from the future Member States would like healthy food and support for improving rural life to become top priorities of the EU's agricultural policy, according to a recent Eurobarometer poll.

On 22 January, the Commission adopted a package of proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The proposals should set the EU on the road to a sustainable European Model of Agriculture.

A new study on Environmental Integration and the CAP, published by the Institute for European Environmental Policy in London, recommends a significant increase of the rural development funding.

The Dutch State Secretary for European Affairs Atzo Nicolaï has warned that EU enlargement could fail if Member States do not agree to phase out direct payments to farmers.

Seven EU Farm Ministers defended the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in a letter to several European newspapers on 23 September while the Council started discussing CAP reform.

The EU is expected to take the lead in WTO negotiations on agriculture as the focus has shifted from the US to Europe on farm policy reform.

A group of Conservative ex-ministers in the UK has called for a new document setting out the limits between the powers of the EU and the Member States.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has announced the British Government's support for a written constitution for the European Union.

10 out of 15 EU Agriculture Ministers opposed the Commission's proposal for a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), arguing it could seriously damage the interests of farmers.

The Commission presented its reform plans for the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on 10 July. With some radical changes but sticking to the fundamentals of the CAP, the Commission intends to bring the agricultural policy closer to its citizens.

On 10 July, the European Farm Commissioner, Franz Fischler, is expected to propose a radical reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, de-coupling farm subsidies and production.

The European Commission decided on 1 July to allow Poland to start managing its pre-accession farm aid programme (SAPARD), amounting to 171.6 million euro annually.

France presented its CAP anti-reform proposals at the Agriculture Council in Luxembourg on 27 June, arguing that the EU should keep the current agricultural policy until 2006.

The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, has warned at a meeting with his Polish counterpart, Leszek Miller, that extending the full EU subsidies to the candidate countries would be impossible to finance.

The 15 EU Foreign Ministers will try to reach an agreement on farm subsidies for the candidate countries and on fight against illegal immigration at their last meeting before the Seville Summit.

The 15 EU Foreign Ministers failed to reach an agreement on subsidies to Eastern European farmers, with net payers calling for a reform of the EU's agricultural policy ahead of enlargement.

Germany and the Netherlands called for an immediate reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) at the Agricultural Convention in Brussels.

The European Parliament's Agriculture Committee has backed the Commission's proposal to gradually introduce farm subsidies to the future EU Member States over a period of 10 years.