Research for AGRI Committee – CAP implementation: Flexibility given to Member States – state of play and perspectives

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This study discusses flexibility of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) from various angles. The current flexibility does not create major conflicts with the objectives of the CAP. It makes decision-making more dispersed over the Member States, but also more effective. There may be small adverse effects on the level playing field.

On the positive side, flexibility allows Member States to address specific problems and pursue heterogeneous and/or geographically bound goals. This should be regarded as bounded targeting, not renationalisation.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, May 2017: Research for AGRI Committee - CAP implementation: Flexibility given to Member States - state of play and perspectives http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/601975/IPOL_STU(2017)601975_EN.pdf

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