The workshop will kick off with a debate on how the future
CAP strategic plans should be designed to achieve common
objectives of the EU’s farm policy. The committee and
experts will then focus on the funding of the CAP after
2020, debating the structure of direct payments and the
support for rural development. The third part of the
workshop will be dedicated to draft sector-specific rules
and ways to improve functioning on the food supply chain.
WHERE: Paul-Henri Spaak (PHS) building in
Brussels, room 1A002
WHEN: Monday, 15 October, 15.00 - 18.30
You can also follow the debates via web-stream.
Background
The workshop on ways to improve the CAP reform legislative
proposals follows the 9
October public hearing with experts on the EU’s
farm policy after 2020.
MEPs laid out their position on
the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform in
a resolution the
European Parliament adopted on 30 May. The future EU farm
policy must be smarter, simpler, fairer and more
sustainable, they said. But they rejected any
“renationalisation” of the CAP and insisted on maintaining
the CAP budget at its current level as a minimum.
In a debate with Commissioner on 11 June, ten days
after the EU’s executive revealed the legislative proposals
for the post-2020 CAP, MEPs
said that the draft reform plans lack ambition and
a proper budgetary backing.
The CAP reform is closely linked to debates on the future
EU's long-term budget. Here, the Agriculture
Committee firmly
rejected any cuts in the post-2020 funding of the
CAP.
The final wording of the new CAP laws will be co-decided by
the Parliament and the Council.