Translation of "common agricultural policy " (English → French) :

It fully intends to play its part by bringing the fishermen’s points of view and those of EU policy-makers closer together. As an elected representative from a port town, I am always struck by how the fishing sector mistrusts and sees itself as remote from the common fisheries policy (CFP), whereas farmers for example clearly feel themselves to be more a part of the common agricultural policy.

But what I have developed is two main themes. Firstly, that the common agricultural policy needs to be simpler, fairer and more transparent and that, secondly, the culture of the common agricultural policy needs to change, that a future reformed common agricultural policy ought to be more outcome-driven and less burdened with excessive regulation.

In particular, the Commission should be able to adopt detailed rules of application in respect of the publication of information on beneficiaries of the common agricultural policy, in respect of intervention measures where no fixed sum per item has been laid down in a common market organisation and in respect of appropriations which have been carried over to finance the expenditure referred to in Article 3(1)(c) of that Regulation.

The move is a major step in the ongoing process of streamlining and simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy for the benefit of farmers, administrations and companies handling agricultural products.

The Commission has put forward a proposal for reform of the common organisation of the market in rice as part of the mid-term review of the common agricultural policy.

The reforms needed to achieve this were tackled mainly from the second half of the 'eighties leading to the reform of the Structural Funds in 1988 and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in 1992, both of which led to basic changes in the way things were organized: - In structural policy there was a clear shift of emphasis from sectoral structural policy to the integrated development of rural areas and to a much greater integration of the principle of subsidiarity; - Under the 1992 CAP reform the indirect support of agricultural incomes via artificially raised prices in certain key areas was reduced and replaced by direct income ...[+++] support via deficiency payments.