In order to foster the competitiveness of the food supply chain, the European Commission is committed to promote and facilitate the restructuring and consolidation of the agricultural sector by encouraging the creation of voluntary agricultural producer organisations. To support the policy...

Wenn es um die Ausgaben aus dem EU-Haushalt geht, ist der Mehrwert ein Schlüsselelement jeder Diskussion. Diese Studie zielt darauf ab, die GAP im Kontext der EU-Ausgabenpolitik zu beschreiben und die Wirksamkeit sowie den Mehrwert zu analysieren, der durch die Direktzahlungen (erste Säule)...

The EU has highlighted the importance of using the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) to prevent the abandonment of high nature value farmland and its intensification as a key action to halt biodiversity decline. The present report sets out to assess whether the current distribution of CAP funds is...

Key messages: 1) Diverse climatic conditions, varied geology and morphology and centuries of pre- and post-industrial land use created Europe's diverse mosaic of cultural and natural landscapes, rich in biodiversity. 2) Europe's landscapes have become highly fragmented and homogenised,...

1. On 26 June 2013 the Commission, the European Parliament and the Councilreached a political agreement on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy(CAP). One of the key elements of the CAP reform is a significant modification ofthe application of competition rules in the agricultural sector....