EU-28: Post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Consultation Launched

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The European Commission launched its three-month public consultation on the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform today, Thursday, February 2, 2017. The online consultation asks stakeholders 30 questions on how to simplify and modernize the CAP with a view to achieving Agriculture Commissioner Hogan’s priorities of increased sustainable production, generational renewal, and market resilience. The responses will be summarized over the six week period following the end of the consultation period on April 26/27, and a CAP reform conference is scheduled for July 7, 2017. The Commission intends to publish a Communication on modernizing and simplifying the CAP by the end of November, 2017, ahead of formal legislative proposals in early 2018. The new CAP should be applicable from 2020.

EU-28: Post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Consultation Launched

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