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Common Agricultural Policy The CAP reform debate passed an important stage during January. The CLA debated its reactions to the Commission’s communication published last November, and fed our ideas through to the ELO. The result was the document below. This paper has been sent to the Commission, many MEPs, and to officials in the Member States. We suggest the Commission is moving broadly in the right direction, but this support is highly conditional on three major concerns. First, we make it clear that the policy must be adequately funded. Second it is vital to ensure reforms do not disturb existing agri-environment schemes. Third we must, at all costs, avoid further complicating the policy by introducing payment capping and new restrictive definitions of active farmers. Click here to download the ELO response to the Communication and Impact Assessment CAP towards 2020 The CLA said today (Thursday, 18 November 2010) that the European Commission’s official paper on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) remains on broadly the right track. The Association, which has been arguing for the protection of a fully funded CAP to provide Food and Environmental Security, said the Commission’s paper has found the middle-ground between the extremes of “no change” and the drastic withdrawal of all Pillar 1 support. Download a briefing note from The CLA’s Policy Director, Professor Allan Buckwell. (350KB pdf) We are at the heart of the debate on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, making the case for maintaining the current budget to meet the twin challenges of food and environmental security. The CLA also aims to improve the working of the Single Payment Scheme Government by lobbying Government and working on Rural Payments Agency stakeholder committees. The CLA believes that:
The more sustainable, environmentally friendly agriculture that the Government describes in its paper, Food 2030, cannot become a reality without an appropriate CAP budget. Eliminating EU agricultural subsidies and border protection would destroy thousands of farm businesses, stimulating widespread abandonment of livestock grazing. This would lead to the scrubbing over and closing in of the open landscape. The policy would also increase imports, some of them of doubtful environmental quality. A New Way Forward
A paper produced by the CLA with major European landowners and conservation bodies explains ways in which future pressures on the environment can be resisted. Land managers and conservationists have much more in common than many realise. Both see the land in Europe as a precious resource for the next generation. Proposals for the future CAP, a joint policy paper from the European Landowners' Organisation and BirdLife International, spells this out. Read BBC coverage of its launch: Public Goods From Private LandThis new report looks at ways in which land managers can deliver benefits for the public and what the priorities should be for support for those benefits. The task force was directed by Professor Allan Buckwell for the Public Utility Foundation for Rural Investment Support for Europe (RISE). Read the report on Public Goods From Private Land. Developing Environmental MarketsHow can land managers be motivated to provide landscape, biodiversity, and other environmental goods Read our discussion paper: Private Solutions to Public Problems - Developing Environmental Markets. For advice and detail on the current working of the SPS, please see the SPS page on the Advice area of the website. Links |
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