Forum: The Common Agricultural Policy After 2013

In October 2011 the European Commission presented a set of legal proposals designed to make the Common Agricultural Policy more effective. Pending a debate in the European Parliament and the Council, approval is expected by the end of 2013.

This Forum aims to identify the proposals’ shortcomings and to offer suggestions for improvement which the Parliament and Council can work to implement. The authors pay particular attention to the future of direct payments, CAP greening and rural development, as well as to the change in the decision-making rules which grants the Parliament more authority over the process.

With articles by Jean-Christophe Bureau, Stefan Tangermann, Alan Matthews, Davide Viaggi, Christophe Crombez, Louise Knops, Johan Swinnen.

+ Jean-Christophe Bureau: Where Is the Common Agricultural Policy Heading?

+ Stefan Tangermann: CAP Reform and the Future of Direct Payments

+ Alan Matthews: Greening the Common Agricultural Policy Post-2013

+ Davide Viaggi: Rural Development in the Post-2013 CAP: Huge Opportunity or Devil

+ Christophe Crombez, Louise Knops and Johan Swinnen: Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy Under the Co-decision Procedure

[Full text of articles can be found in the Intereconomics Archive two years after the initial publication]

• Primary Source

Intereconomics: Archive http://archive.intereconomics.eu/years/

ESO: Background information: The history of the common agricultural policy [Focus on the period 2013-2019) http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-history-of-the-common-agricultural-policy/

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