Commission: New CAP will be ‘fairer, not simpler, but maybe greener’

During the conference 'Good Food - Good Farming', taking place in Brussels on 10 February 2015, an official from the European Commission stated the reformed Common Agriculture Policy was set to be 'fairer' and maybe 'greener', but not 'simpler'.

Tassos Haniotis, director for economic analysis at the European Commission's agriculture department (DG AGRI), said the new CAP was going to be 'peculiar'​ because of the new Commission taking charge, 18 months after EU institutions agreed on the CAP reform.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The Devil is in the Detail: Threat of Delays to CAP Implementation http://www.europeansources.info/record/blog-the-devil-is-in-the-detail-threat-of-delays-to-cap-implementation/

Website: Good Food – Good Farming Conference 2015 http://www.arc2020.eu/front/conference2015/

EurActiv, 25.09.15: De Castro: CAP reform not set in stone, can be changed http://www.euractiv.com/sections/can-new-cap-deliver-sustainability/de-castro-cap-reform-requires-change-317886

EurActiv, 19.10.15: Reformed CAP aims to respond to global food security challenge http://www.euractiv.com/sections/innovation-feeding-world/cap-respond-food-security-challenge-318608

EurActiv, 20.10.15: 'E-agriculture' could save EU farmers time and money http://www.euractiv.com/sections/innovation-feeding-world/e-agriculture-could-save-eu-farmers-time-and-money-318644

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