European Parliament: Making the EU’s farm policy reform a success: Workshop on Monday at 15.00

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 Phil Hogan 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.