Translation of "Health Check the CAP reform " (English → French) :

As regards point (c), in order to avoid misinterpretations and unnecessary administrative costs and burden, the whole of Title V should apply from 1 January 2015 except as regards the application of the sCMO Regulation. Currently, the text of Art. 115(c) provides that only Chapter II of Title V (i.e. IACS) would apply from 1 January 2015, but other provisions, such as Art. 60-67 on general principles on checks, would apply already in 2014.As regards point (d), to make it possible to compare data and results, the monitoring and evaluation of the CAP (Art. 110) should apply from 16 October 2015 (i.e. after the CAP ...[+++]reform).As regards the transparency provisions (Art. 110a - 110d), Art. 110c of HZ Regulation states that the farmers have to be informed about the publication of their names, municipalities, support amounts etc.

The ‘health check’ of CAP reform currently under way will provide the next opportunity to adopt specific short-term solutions such as, for example, the final abolition of set-aside, a further increase in milk quotas, a further detachment of aid from production in other sectors with tied aid, and the abolition of the energy crop premium.

But I would echo colleagues’ disappointment that we could have gone a bit further and been a bit more ambitious, but let us remember that the health check was only ever about a health check: the fundamental reform will come later and that is what we need to focus on today.

It is important to recall, in this connection, that the purpose of the recent CAP reforms was to make agriculture in the European Union more efficient and competitive, but at the same time to ensure its sustainability. The Health Check will now confirm the validity of this twofold objective.

– having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council of 20 November 2007 entitled 'Preparing for the "Health Check" of the CAP reform' (COM(2007)0722),

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council of 20 November 2007 on preparing for the “Health Check” of the CAP reform - [COM(2007) 722 final - Not published in the Official Journal].