Download or read book Implications for Developing Countries of Likely Reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union written by Alan Swinbank and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1999 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next three years negotiations will be taking place in the WTO (World Trade Organisation) on agriculture. This report will help participants and analysts to understand the EU's negotiating position.
Download or read book Common Agricultural Policy written by Robert Ackrill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CAP has traditionally been at the core of the European Communities and even now consumes half of the European Union's budget. This book emphasizes the long-term link between the CAP and the budget. It examines the aims of the Common Agricultural Policy as set out in the Treaty of Rome and discusses to what extent they have been achieved and whether they are relevant to the 21st century. The factors that have shaped the 1992 and 1999 CAP reforms are outlined, with the latter, in particular, demonstrating the budget's effect on CAP and CAP reforms. The internationalization of CAP with constraints being placed on it by the World Trade Organization is another important factor covered by the book. The 1999 reforms are measured against what may be allowed by the WTO and the demands of EU enlargement. This title is published in conjunction with UACES, the University Association for Contemporary European Studies. UACES web site can be found at www.uaces.org
Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy written by Grace Skogstad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a unique agricultural policy worldwide. For many years, its status as the only common European Community (EC) policy governed by EC institutions put it at the heart of European integration. Today the CAP is not the only common European Union (EU) policy. Even while it remains the sole instance of a regionally integrated agricultural policy, the CAP no longer embodies the same degree of cross-national harmonization of agricultural policy among EC/EU member states that it once did. The CAP has undergone policy reforms in the past two decades and these reforms have spawned a host of questions. What has caused the CAP to reform? How path-breaking are CAP reforms? Are they consistent with founding CAP goals or do they encompass new ideas about agriculture’s place in the economy and society? And what are the consequences of agricultural policy reforms: for European farmers, consumers and taxpayers; for European ‘public goods’ such as environmental sustainability and preservation of rural communities and landscapes; and for third parties outside the EU, including the WTO? This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.
Download or read book Disaggregated Impacts of CAP Reforms Proceedings of an OECD Workshop written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report collects papers presented at the OECD Workshop on Disaggregated Impacts of CAP Reforms, held in Paris in 2010, which focused on recent reforms. In particular, it examined the implementation of the single payment scheme since 2005 and the transfer of funds between different measures.
Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1988-11-25 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter discusses principles and consequences of the common agricultural policy (CAP) of the European Community (EC). It shows that agricultural pricing policies aimed at supporting farm incomes were already in place in EC member countries before the inception of the CAP; indeed, in the presence of these policies, the CAP was a logical consequence of the extension of the common market to the agricultural sector. Thus, the flaws of the CAP can be traced back to national policies and attitudes toward agriculture. Recognition of the burden of agricultural support on the rest of the economy, as well as the growing budgetary costs, has elicited a greater public interest in the CAP. Equally, the trade frictions caused by export subsidies have underlined the CAP's international implications. For these reasons, the member states appear more determined than hitherto to bring agricultural expenditure under control. Given the wider effects of the CAP both on EC economies and the international community, it is to be hoped that current efforts at reform will be successful.
Download or read book Problems arising from the Common Agricultural Policy written by Kenân Özkara and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 2,0, Leuven Catholic University, course: Institutions and Policy of the European Union, language: English, abstract: Das wirtschaftliche Zusammenwachsen innerhalb der Europäischen Union (EU) der letzten Jahrzehnte sowie die Verwirklichung des europäischen Binnenmarktes im Jahr 1993 zwangen sowohl die Mitgliedstaaten als auch die Unternehmen, sich neuen Herausforderungen zu stellen. Durch die Öffnung der nationalen Märkte sahen und sehen sich die Staaten und ihre heimischen Unternehmen einem steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck gegenüber, den sie mitunter mit unrechtmäßigen Mitteln zu unterlaufen versuchen: Wettbewerbsbeschränkende Absprachen zwischen Unternehmen auf der einen Seite und staatliche Maßnahmen auf der anderen Seite vermögen den Wettbewerb gleichermaßen zu beeinflussen. Um die kompetitiven Marktstrukturen aufrechtzuerhalten, bedient sich die EU daher zweier Instrumente: Während die im Jahre 1990 erlassene europäische Fusionskontrollverordnung Wettbewerbsverfälschungen auf Unternehmensebene effektiv entgegenzuwirken versucht, regelt und überwacht die Beihilfenkontrolle die Beihilfenvergabe durch die Mitgliedstaaten. Gegenstand dieser Hausarbeit wird eine nähere Untersuchung und kritische Betrachtung der Beihilfenkontrolle der EU sein. Einführend wird in Kapitel 2 zunächst der zentrale Gegenstand der Beihilfenkontrolle - sprich die Beihilfe - genauer betrachtet, bevor in gebotener Kürze ein Überblick über mögliche Vor-und Nachteile der Vergabe gegeben wird. Gegenstand des dritten Kapitels ist die Beihilfenkontrolle durch die Europäische Kommission. Zunächst werden die Zielsetzungen sowie die Kriterien für die Rechtmäßigkeit einer Beihilfe dargestellt. Daraufhin sollen kurz das Verfahren der Beihilfenkontrolle sowie die rechtlichen Schranken skizziert werden, wobei weniger einzelne Details besprochen als vielmehr die Grundzüge aufgezeigt werden. In Kapitel 4 erfolgt eine kritische Betrachtung der Beihilfenkontrolle und ihrer wichtigsten Problemfelder. Dabei werden zunächst die Überlastung der Kommission sowie die unzureichende Transparenz sowohl auf Seiten der Mitgliedstaaten als auch auf Seiten der Kommission betrachtet. Anschließend wird die Dimension politischer Zielkonflikte dargestellt, wobei auch ein kurzer Blick auf politökonomische Aspekte erfolgt. In einem letzten Punkt wird die Problematik unterschiedlicher wettbewerbstheoretischer Leitbilder innerhalb der EU und ihre Bedeutung für die Beihilfenkontrolle aufgezeigt, bevor in Kapitel 5 abschließend ein kurzes Fazit aus den vorangegangenen Überlegungen gezogen wird.
Download or read book The European Union s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms written by Marko Lovec and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages in the controversies of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, demonstrating how these are reiterated by mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. The reforms that the European Union’s CAP underwent during the last three decades were intended to make it less trade-distorting, more taxpayer-friendly and more able to meet the new challenges of environmental concerns and rural development/territorial cohesion. The outcome of the reforms has, however, contradicted these objectives, with the controversies being reiterated by the mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms argues that these controversies are due to reductionist, rationalist and idealist assumptions with regard to the object of inquiry applied by mainstream approaches. It proposes an alternative critical approach that takes into account the role of real material factors. Critical realism is not just an alternative explanation of CAP reforms but an alternative theory of how explanations can be made, which enables readers to reflect upon and endorse the results of existing lines of research in proceeding towards deeper level theory.
Download or read book The European Model of Agriculture written by Michael Cardwell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Cardwell's study assesses whether the EU can create a new leglislative framework that is feasible and which will placate the WTO and its drive towards world domination.
Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture and East west European Integration written by Jason G Hartell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: This volume analyzes key issues of the process of integrating Central and Eastern European countries with the European Union related to agriculture. The issues include the comparative advantage of CEEC agriculture and its development under various accession policy scenarios; the likely policy developments in both the CEECs and the EU, based on economic, social and political economy considerations; the expected economic impacts and adjustment costs for the agro-food sector under various policy outcomes; the most important constraints for integration including policy convergence issues and internal constraints; and how integration will potentially affect trade and labour flows in the Union. The country combines detailed country-specific and region-wide empirical and theoretical analysis.
Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy CAP The historic development and current challenges written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the following questions: What is the significance of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)? How did the CAP develop in the course of time and which milestones left their mark on the regulations of today’s policy? What are the current problems and which challenges does the CAP have to respond to in the future? How will the development continue? As a researcher the topic is of great interest as it concerns every European tax payer, the environmental change depends in certain aspects on the policy of the CAP as well as the quality of the European agricultural products. It’s a prevalent topic which not every citizen is fully aware of and whose effects should be examined more in detail. Agriculture has many important needs to satisfy in the population and to ensure a wide range of social tasks: food production, production of biomass for power generation and material use, design and maintenance of cultural landscapes and biotopes, determination of animal welfare or the impact on social and economic structures. In order to promote these societal tasks of agriculture, the politics should set the framework in such a way that the economic activity of the farmers fulfills common welfare purposes at the same time. This is done by specifying duties as well as by creating incentives. In this regard the CAP of the European Union (=EU) has a great influence. In this context the time has come again for the EU commission to set the Multiannual Financial Framework (=MFF) for the period from 2021 to 2027. One of the biggest expenditures with about 54 billion euros a year is the CAP which is nowadays hardly criticised for promoting poverty and food security in developing countries through European subsidies. Interventions related to the agricultural policy cause a dilemma due to the fundamental conflict of interest between producers and consumers. On the one hand, the abolishment of the CAP apparently does not have a lot of negative consequences – according to the Joint Research Centre of the European commission the consequential decline of the agricultural production would be insignificant. On the other hand, the CAP does not have a lot of effects that harm its development, but a danger is prevalent that it might fall back into old patterns by e.g. using payments coupled to the production.
Download or read book Outlook on the common agricultural policy of the European Union written by Christian Manthe and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: The focus of the thesis is the Direct Payments Systems of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union as introduced as part of the MacSharry reform and extended under the Agenda 2000. The objective is to analyse the current system and the proposals made by the Commission in January 2003 regarding a decoupling of these payments. The Common Agricultural Policy was one of the first policies developed in the European Union, and one of those regulated in the greatest detail. Among the European Union's policies, the CAP is regarded as one of the most important policy areas. This is justified not only because of its share of the EU budget, the vast number of people and the extent of the territory directly affected, but also because of its symbolic significance and the extent of sovereignty transferred from the national to the European level. The significance of the CAP, nowadays, is also portrayed by the fact that it is directly related to the Single Market and the EMU, two key areas in achieving the European integration. The objective of the CAP was to support the agricultural sector in the Member States. The second chapter of this thesis will provide general legal background information on the institutions of the EU and the functioning of the decision-making processes with regards to the agricultural sector. The history of the CAP, it s functioning, the reasons for its creation and some general information will be outlined in chapter 3. Special emphasis will be on the common market organisations, the second pillar of the CAP, the rural development policy and the system of Direct Payments. The history will also cover the Agenda 2000, the Mid-term review and especially the latest reform proposals of the EU in January 2003. The proposals with regard to the Direct Payments, such as the decoupling and the modulation, will be subject to a closer analysis in chapter 7. The chapter 4 covers the EU enlargement and gives an overview of the new challenges arising by that for the EU. Even though the consequences of the enlargement are significant in some areas of the CAP, this thesis will not provide a closer analysis of all the dimensions. The topic of the EU enlargement itself is too extensive to be covered by a single chapter. The focus of this thesis is on the Direct Payment system of the CAP and thus the consequences of EU enlargement will only be portrayed on this background. Chapter 6 provides a short evaluation of [...]
Download or read book European Agriculture written by Brian Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is central to both economic and environmental developments in Europe. But with the advent of new environmental legislation and political change in Europe the CAP faces increasing pressure to reform. European Agriculture provides a comprehensive breakdown of the workings of the CAP and its impact on farming in Europe. The author discusses every aspect of European agricultural policy, production and trade, from environmental contraints and the impact of biotechnology, to the role of European farming in the world food supply system. Posing direct questions about the recent 1992 agricultural reform, the 1994 GATT agreement and the reasons for the expensive continuation of the CAP, European Agriculture analyses the economic, political and environmental implications of pursuing present farming policy and provides a provocative commentary on the agricultural future of Europe.
Download or read book Policy Reform and Adjustment in the Agricultural Sectors of Developed Countries written by David Blandford and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the policy implications of growing pressures for economic adjustment in the agricultural sectors of developed countries. The primary focus is on Europe and North America, but adjustment policies in other developed countries are discussed. Some chapters are based on an international workshop at Imperial College, London in October 2003 and an international symposium in Philadelphia in the spring of 2004.
Download or read book The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture written by Virgil Ball and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a gradual and sustained decline in the contribution of agriculture to the economies of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the sector remains socially and politically important. Although agriculture accounts for less than 2% of the gross domestic product of the OECD countries, it occupies over 35% of their total land area. Predominantly rural regions, where agriculture remains particularly important, contain almost one quarter of the population of OECD countries. The past quarter century has witnessed signi?cant changes in agricultural po- cies in OECD countries. Although total support remains high, a shift has taken place from price-linked measures to direct income support, most notably in the European Union. Policies have been adapted to meet pressing social concerns, such as ens- ing food security and improving environmental quality. OECD countries face major economic issues due to the ageing of their populations and the need to adapt to gl- alization and increasing competition from emerging economies. Continued pressure to reform agricultural policies will be exerted by the need to economize on the use of scarce public resources. At the same time, agriculture faces new challenges g- erated by climate change, the “greening” of the economy, increasing scarcity of energy and water, and the demands placed on the food system by an expanding world population.
Download or read book Ideas Institutions and Trade written by Carsten Daugbjerg and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture has a small, and declining, importance in employment and income generation within the EU, but a political importance well beyond its economic impact. The EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has often been the source of conflict between the EU and its trade partners within first the GATT, and then the WTO. In the Doha Round agriculture was again a sticking point, resulting in setbacks and delays. The position of the EU is pivotal. Due to the comparatively limited competitiveness of the EU's agricultural sector, and the EU's institutionally constrained ability to undertake CAP reform, the CAP sets limits for agricultural trade liberalization blocking progress across the full compass of the WTO agenda. Therefore, the farm trade negotiation, with the CAP at its core, is the key to understanding the dynamics of trade rounds in the WTO. The book, written by a political scientist and an agricultural economist, applies theory on ideas to explain how the agricultural sector came to be included in the Single Undertaking that resulted in the Uruguay Round agreements, and how this led to a dynamic interplay between CAP reform and the possibility of further agricultural trade liberalization within the WTO, thereby providing useful insights into international trade relations.
Download or read book Impact of EU CAP Reforms in East Africa written by Otieno-Odek and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
