“Controlling the CAP health status” is the title given by the European commission to the program aimed at modernizing and rendering more efficient Community Agricultural Policy, presented last week in Brussels by Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel. Communication by the executive starts from the statement that “European agriculture is not ill, however it needs a check-up to assess its adjustment to the reality of enlargement and to a rapidly changing world”, considering the positive implementation of the reforms of 2003 and 2004. In detail, simplification of single-payment procedure and the introduction of new parameters (dimensions of the farm, water resource management, climate changes prevention) are envisaged to access EU funds as well as the revision of market-support tools and the stepping up of interventions for rural development.
