Common Agricultural Policy, CAP reform, European agriculture, food security, sustainability, economic integration, European Union, agricultural subsidies, rural development
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This document discusses the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform and its implications for European agriculture, focusing on economic integration, sustainability, and food security.
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[...] The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has thus played a founding role in European integration. Historically, the CAP developed within the framework of the Marshall Plan after the end of World War II in 1945. The Marshall Plan aimed for a 15% increase in European agricultural production. Also, market harmonization was mentioned as early as the Messina Conference, which was the origin of the Rome Treaty of 1957. Articles 38 to 47 of the Treaty of Rome deal with agriculture. Article 38, the ancestor of Article 39 of the TFEU, provides for a common agricultural policy of the contracting states. [...]
[...] The Pursuit of Sustainable Agriculture in EU Free Trade Agreements. 1st ed. Boston: Wageningen Academic Publishers vol.12. - Regulation 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021 establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulations No 1305/2013 and No 1307/2013, consolidated. [...]
[...] What challenges does the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) pose for European agriculture of tomorrow in terms of economic integration? The Stakes of CAP Reform for the Future of European Agriculture Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) states that « the common agricultural policy has the following objectives : a. to increase the productivity of agriculture ( . ) b. to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural population ( . [...]
[...] 100-108. - A. DE RAVIGNAN (2021). The CAP still hasn't taken the right course. Alternatives Économiques 15-15. - BOZA, Sofía, FERNÁNDEZ-ARDAVÍN, Ana. 'Common agricultural policy within the context of negotiations at the WTO', International Studies, MAY - AUG 2015, Year 47, No (MAY - AUG 2015), pp. 51-67 - J.C. BUREAU, S. THOYER, 'The CAP and third countries', In. J.C. BUREAU, S. THOYER, The Common Agricultural Policy, 2014. [...]
[...] In 2003, the Fischler reform implemented the objectives voted in 1996. Subsidies and production were decoupled. Instead of being annexed to the volume of production, the volume of subsidy was annexed to a certain number of factors including the respect of good agricultural and environmental practices (BPAE). The conditionality of the aid was based on the respect of standards in terms of animal welfare, health, safety and environment. These aids are called single payment decoupled. On average of farmers receive 81% of the aid, as they own 83% of the agricultural land. [...]
