Author : Emmanuel Preville
Release : 2004
Genre : Agriculture
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The new common agricultural policy in Europe by : Emmanuel Preville
Download or read book The new common agricultural policy in Europe written by Emmanuel Preville. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the CAP's key objectives, as stipulated in Article 39.1 of the Treaty of Rome, are: (3) • to increase agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress and by ensuring the rational development of agricultural production and the optimum utilisation of the factors of production, in particular labour, and • to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, in particul [...] For instance, Germany is the largest contributor to the EU budget, but its rate of return on the share of that contribution that is devoted to the CAP is only 47%. [...] The value of the PSE, the GSSE and the TSE in the European Union amounted to roughly €103.9 billion in 2002, more than twice the amount identified as expenditures in EU annual reports on the CAP (see Table 1). [...] The end of the Cold War in Europe in the early 1990s, and the wrapping up of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations in 1994, resolved the challenges that had brought about the CAP's creation; they were thus key factors in driving EU policy makers to reform the CAP. [...] From the standpoint of countries in regions such as Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this practice made the EU market less attractive for agricultural exports and increased the price-competitiveness of EU exports.
