Published Friday, 19 November 2010
IEEP Comments on the Commission’s Blueprint for the CAP post 2013
The European Commission has launched its outline proposals
for a significant reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Entitled ‘The CAP towards 2020: meeting the
food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future’, the
Communication represents a potentially bold move to reorient the CAP into a
policy that meets the needs of EU society and the challenges – economic, social
and environmental – of the next decade. However, the paper is stronger on ideas
than specifics. The real substance will be revealed only when the Commission
sets out concrete legislative proposals which will be worked up over the coming
6 months. The crucial political negotiations will then ensue. To read IEEP’s reflections on the CAP
proposals please see the related articles at:
www.cap2020.ieep.eu