CAP reform beyond 2013: An idea for a longer view
Étude | 27/05/2008 
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This publication is the result of Task Force work launched by Notre Europe in the end of 2005. The ambition of this contribution is to reconsider without taboos the objectives of a European farm policy with a long view; to assess the instruments currently in place; and, drawing lessons from the past, to make suggestions on how to design the future CAP due in 2013.

Foreword by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

The common agricultural policy (CAP), one of the most significant budget lines of the EU, has become a major european taboo. As the focal point of most crisis or periods of stagnation in the history of european integration, this policy draws dividing lines in european debates. This can be explained by the extreme diversity of visions of agriculture's role among member states. Some of them consider agriculture as a declining sector and the CAP as a useless and costly policy. Others depict it as an essential activity and stress the need for a strong common policy[...]


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Authors
Louis-Pascal Mahé
Professor Emeritus at Agrocampus Rennes Co-author of the CAP 2013 Report
Jean-Christophe Bureau
Professor and researcher at AgroParisTech Co-author of the CAP 2013 Report
In view
CAP budget negotiations: Make or break for the European Union
Policy brief by Nadège Chambon | 21/10/2010
As the most integrated EU and sole policy to be financed mainly by the common budget, the CAP represents 40% of the Community budget. This exceptional status has made the CAP the target of virulent critiques regarding its “cost.” Yet Europeans spend less money for agriculture and rural development than for research or development or even energy. As we approach discussions on the financial perspectives after 2013, this brief draws attention to the risks of an poorly framed debate on the cost of the CAP. It calls, in view of global challenges that will again bring the agricultural issue to the fore, for the debate on comprehensive reform of the CAP which the EU and its agriculture need.  
See also
The single payment scheme after 2013: new approach - new targets
| 19/03/2010
Study for the Policy Department Structural and Cohesion Policies - European Parliament. Coordinated by Jean-Christophe Bureau, Heinz-Peter Witzke, EUROCARE.
Project
Proposals for the CAP post-2013
Research project
External resources

JC. Bureau and LP. Mahé study edited by Notre Europe, has been quoted as a reference document in George Lyon’s report.
This document that elaborates the European Parliament’s position on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013 has been adopted the 21st June 2010.

Intervention on Notre Europe's CAP report by JC Bureau and LP Mahé:

Notre Europe thanks Philippe Deschamps, photograph author, for giving his agreement in order to use his photographs as illustrations for CAP project.