The CAP, yesterday, today and tomorrow XIV: I have a dream. Which food and territorial policy for the XXI century?

1. The CAP yesterday, today and tomorow
2015/2016
SBSEM and European Commission
14. And tomorrow? A Food and
Territorial Common Policy
(FOTERCOP)
Tomás García Azcárate

2. It’s time to change: thinking
outside the box
• Since 1992, accumulation of reforms
• Huge complexity
• Lack of legitimacy
• What we need today is a complete rethink: a food
and territorial policy, much more than an
agricultural policy

3. New objectives I
• To ensure a fair standard of living for rural
communities, including farmers. Food chain.

4. New objectives II
• To provide consumers with food at reasonable
prices

5. New objectives III
• To stabilise markets

6. New objectives IV
• To promote sustainable development: agricultural
production and consumption. A challenge for the
global food chain

7. New instruments: First pillar
• All pluri-annual instruments and policies such as:
• - The remaining rural development programmes
• - Fruit and vegetables, wine and other
programmes
• - Agricultural research and innovation

8. New instruments: Second pillar
• All annual instruments and policies such as:
• - the remaining direct payments
• - the remaining less favoured area payments

9. New instruments: third pillar I
• European Price and Market Observatory
• Food chain rebalancing, including producer
organisations, Interbranches…

10. New instruments: third pillar II
• Food chain rebalancing: competition issues.
Promoting private market management as a
market calming market, as proposed by the
Commission in 1990

11. New instruments: third pillar III
• European initiatives on promoting better, more
balanced and sustainable eating habits, including
educational school programmes.
• New rules for public tendering to make easier the
promotion of short circuits, local food, organic
and other identified quality products.

12. A policy for ecological transition I
• Remaining direct payments only with activel
participation in agri-environmental schemes

13. A policy for ecological transition II
• Rural environment programmes (more than agri-
environment) including organic farming
• European initiatives on eating habits
• Research and innovation

14. Budget issues I
• Financing only for actions which have a real
European value added: financial support for
cohesion regions, Natura 2000…

15. Budget issues II
• One single national envelope per Member State
for Pillars 1, 2 and partly 3.
• Identical financing and cofinancing rules for all
actions, as decided by the MS based on its
priorities
• At least 50% of the envelope for financing
ecological transition
• Capping of net contribution to EU budget

16. FOTERCOP simpler for MS and
citizens
• One global national strategy by MS
• Political (and not financial) logic for defining the
different pillars
• Simpler eco-conditionality
• Simpler and common financing and control rules
• Outside cohesion regions, all RD without clear
European value added financed by national aids

17. FOTERCOP simpler for EU
Institutions
• Integrating in a coherent European cluster, under
the responsibility of a Vice-President, different
policies (or parts of policies): agriculture,
environment, cohesion, climate change, health
and consumers, competition rules, food chain.

18. If you want to know more …
• DG AGRI webpage:
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/index_en.htm
• My webpage:
http://tomasgarciaazcarate.com
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• Linkedin: Tomas Garcia Azcarate
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