CAP Reform of 2003-04

David Kelch andMary Anne Normile

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: European Union;    agriculture reform;    common agricultural policy;    CAP;    decoupled payments;    farm payments;    multilateral negotiations;    World Trade;    Organization;    WTO;    trade;    farm income;   

RP-ID  :  WRS-0407

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

The European Union continued to reform its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003-04, building on the reforms of 1992 and 1999. The centerpiece of the latest reforms is the introduction of a single farm payment (SFP), which is paid to EU farmers based on historical payments unrelated to current production decisions. These recent reforms allow the EU to assume an aggressive position in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations on agriculture, while allowing farmers to make production decisions based more on market signals than on EU policy interventions.