Understanding the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the last decade would need a glimpse of the transformation of the political, economic and social landscape in which the European Union (EU) operates and in which, its agricultural policy is allocated. Since the Mac Sharry reform of 1992, the CAP went under a gradual reform process, conditioned by internal and external factors affecting the agricultural sector. As with other EU reforms, changes in the CAP revealed that for them to be successful, they must be anchored or built upon their past achievements. Fast or discontinuous changes often reveal a non-feasible option. These past achievements must, however, be reviewed in the context of newly emerging factors of influence shaping the Union and the CAP. The main factors that have been driving the EU reform process can be grouped in the following categories: external factors, such as the Monetary Union and the Enlargement; internal factors, such as societal concerns about food safety, environmental conditions and animal welfare; and such other factors as the need to review the financing mechanism, the influence of structural adjustments, the impact of multilateral commitments and the position that EU hopes to occupy in the future global world.
Common agricultural policy: a European journey - then, now and the future
BOATTO, VASCO LADISLAO;
2002
Abstract
Understanding the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the last decade would need a glimpse of the transformation of the political, economic and social landscape in which the European Union (EU) operates and in which, its agricultural policy is allocated. Since the Mac Sharry reform of 1992, the CAP went under a gradual reform process, conditioned by internal and external factors affecting the agricultural sector. As with other EU reforms, changes in the CAP revealed that for them to be successful, they must be anchored or built upon their past achievements. Fast or discontinuous changes often reveal a non-feasible option. These past achievements must, however, be reviewed in the context of newly emerging factors of influence shaping the Union and the CAP. The main factors that have been driving the EU reform process can be grouped in the following categories: external factors, such as the Monetary Union and the Enlargement; internal factors, such as societal concerns about food safety, environmental conditions and animal welfare; and such other factors as the need to review the financing mechanism, the influence of structural adjustments, the impact of multilateral commitments and the position that EU hopes to occupy in the future global world.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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