| Author (Person) | Chaffin, Joshua |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 13.10.11 |
| Publication Date | 13/10/2011 |
| Content Type | News |
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The Common Agricultural Policy is due to be reformed by 2013. After a wide-ranging public debate the European Commission presented on 18 November 2010 a Communication on 'The CAP towards 2020', which outlined options for the future CAP and launched the debate with the other institutions and with stakeholders. On 12 October 2011 the Commission presented a set of legal proposals designed to make the CAP a more effective policy for a more competitive and sustainable agriculture and vibrant rural areas. The legislative proposals aim to: - Address the food supply challenges of the 21st century; This will be achieved by: - Making CAP support more balanced between sectors, regions and Member States; -Making it more clearly linked to environmental public goods provided by farmers and better targeted to active farmers; - Ensuring that European agriculture is more competitive on local, regional, national, European and world markets, while also being sustainable (ie addressing problems related to water, soil, biodiversity, climate change); - making instruments available to help farmers cope with price volatility and the pressures of the food supply chain, and seeking to maintain agricultural production across the whole EU in all its diversity; - Aiding investment and providing advice to address the environmental and economic challenges; encouraging young farms to enter the sector; supporting innovation, and seeking to accelerate the technological transfer from the laboratory to the field; - Boosting the broader role of agriculture in the countryside and supporting initiatives to create jobs and boost the rural economy; - Seeking to simplify the administrative burden for farmers and governments. |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe |
