The objectives of this Course Module are to:

  • Enable Young Farmers to understand how the CAP can be made to work for them, and

  • Use the information provided to plan future farming activities

You should use the information provided to enable you to ask the right sorts of questions and get appropriate “no nonsense” answers from local experts and those authorities in your Country charged with regulating and controlling the provisions of the Common Agricultural Policy.
PART I. What is the Common Agricultural Policy?
A. Introduction to the CAP
B. Sustainability and Agriculture
C. Origins of the CAP
D. Evolution of the CAP
E. 1992 CAP Reform
F. Agenda 2000

PART II. How does the CAP Assist Farmers in Europe?
A. Financial Solidarity: A Basic Principle of the Community
B. Common Organizations of the Market
C. State Aid Under the CAP

PART III. What are the Problems with the CAP?
A. Economic Costs
B. Impacts to the Environment
C. Effects on Public Health
D. Effects on Third World Countries
E. Effects on World Trade

PART IV. What are the CAP Reforms of June 2003?
A. Summary of 2003 CAP Reforms
B. Detailed Review of 2003 CAP Reforms

PART V. How will the CAP Apply to New Member States?
A. SAPARD
B. Application of the CAP to New Member States

Selected Bibliography and Websites
Glossary

 
 

 

WEBSITES

Eurotext

Trans Rural Initiatives

Getting CAP in Hand: BBC Special Report (1999)

“CAP Reform: A Long-term Perspective for Sustainable Agriculture”

Central and Eastern European Sustainable Agriculture (CEESA)

European Documentation Centers Homepage

Agriculture Directorate-General, European Commission

Agrifor

Activities of the European Union: Agriculture, Europa website

Activities of the European Union: Summaries of Legislation, Europa website

Sustain, the Alliance for Better Food and Farming website

European Parliament Fact Sheets

“Enlargement and Agriculture: An Integration Strategy for the EU’s New Member States”

“Resistance Rises to Altering EU Farm Policy”

Partnership for the accession of Cyprus – Agriculture

Agriculture – Cyprus

European Commission, Enlargement, Candidate Countries, Cyprus

European Commission, Enlargement, Candidate Countries, Czech Republic

Partnership for the accession of Estonia – Agriculture

http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/e40102h.htm

 Commission Report 2002 (Estonia)

Chapter 7: Agriculture, Progress Since the Last Regular Report

http://www.fifoost.org/estland/EU_Estonia_2002/node42.php

Partnership for the accession of Hungary – Agriculture

http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/e40103h.htm

Commission Report 2002 (Hungary)

Chapter 7: Agriculture

Progress Since the last regular report

http://www.fifoost.org/ungarn/EU_Hungary_2002/node42.php

Partnership for the accession of Latvia – Agriculture

http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/e04104.htm 

Assessment of the outcome of negotiations between Latvia and European Union and the Common Agricultural Policy

http://www.oefz.at/fr/Budapest03/Interventions_pdf/MartinsRoze1.pdf

Directive 91/676/EEC on nitrate pollution from agricultural sources
 http://baap.lt/nitrate/lithuania/lithuania_vul.htm

Partnership for the accession of Malta – Agriculture
 http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/e40112g.htm

Government Ponders over Common Agricultural Policy
 http://www.business-line.com/business-weekly/archives/276/11.html

European Union, “Comprehensive Monitoring Report on Poland’s Preparations for Membership”, November, 2003 http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report_2003/pdf/cmr_pl_final.pdf

Mularczyk, Krystztof, “Poland and the CAP: Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory”, Open Democracy, March 7, 2003.
 www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-4-64-1330

Slovakia Agriculture and Enlargement

Commission Report 2002 (Slovakia) – Agriculture http://www.fifoost.org/slowakei/EU_SLovakia_2002/node78.php

 

“Accession to the European Union, The Common Agriculture Policy of the EU and it’s impact on Food Prices after Slovakia’s Accession”
 http://www.nbs.sk/BIATEC/BIA07

Partnership for the accession of Slovenia – Agriculture
 http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/e40110j.htm

Slovenia for Full Integration into Common Agricultural Policy until Accession
 http://www.gzs.si/eng/news/sbw/head.asp?idc=3747

Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
http://www.teagasc.ie/
 
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