THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY MODIFICATIONS FOR ROMANIA AFTER THE RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY OF LISBON

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has known a series of successive reforms influenced by the evolution of the European agriculture (the management of large budgetary costs and of overstocks of agrarian products), by the enlargement of the European Union and by the multilateral commercial negotiations within the framework of GATT (Uruguay round) and of the World Trade Organization (Doha round) in regard to the liberalization of the global trade with agrarian products. The Treaty of Lisbon (which was signed at 13th December, 2007 by the chiefs of state and government of the EU-27 and which proposes to revive the European constitutional process with a new approach, concluding in this way the reflection period, after the failure and the image drawback suffered by the European Union after the rejection of the European Constitution project by the citizens of some member states) brings some noticeable modifications and the CAP, one of the vastest communitarian policy with remarkable budgetary implications. All these do not regard the fundamental of the agrarian policy itself, but the legislative procedures, the implementation procedures and the budgetary ones. The paper wants to analyze the implications for Romania of the new CAP lines: the extensive application of the co-decision procedure regarding the agricultural and the fishery policy, enhancing in this way the decisional role of the European Parliament, the reappraisal of the budgetary procedures, the assignation of exclusive attributions to the European Union concerning the marine biological resources and the integration of the protocol on the general weal of animals in the treaty text