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The European Commission will adopt, before the end of 2017, a Statement on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020. The announcement was made last week in Brussels by the President of the Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, during the inauguration of the two-day annual conference organised by the DG AGRI on the prospects of the agriculture and livestock sector: "Simplification and modernisation will be the key words and the main goals of the Statement on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy that the Commission has the intention of adopting before the end of 2017", said the President, Mr. Juncker, and he added that "The first step will be a public enquiry by early 2017 that will allow all of you to contribute to the debate on the path that this vital and strategic policy must follow in the future."
Before some 400 representatives and actors of the agricultural markets, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Phil Hogan, said that he thinks that the CAP "must guarantee basic rules to ensure a better resistance of the markets, a more sustainable agricultural production and a higher generational renewal."
Tuesday, 6 December 2016/ CE/ European Union.
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