General Approach To The CAP
As Commissioner, FIscher Boel has based her work on three guiding principles:
• The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) needed to take European farming towards still greater competitiveness and market-responsiveness – by placing production decisions more firmly in the hands of farmers rather than administrators.
• The CAP needed to address the needs of rural areas as a whole – not only those of agriculture.
• In particular, the CAP needed to reflect growing concern about environmental issues, including climate change.
She has continued the CAP reform process, notably within the three sectors which the reform of 2003 had passed by: sugar, fruit and vegetables, and wine. These sectors had initially been left alone partly because reforming them presented huge political difficulties.
Fischer Boel also took steps to took steps to bolster the EU rural development policy, preparing it to deliver more coherent and balanced results against clear objectives in the new financial period of 2007 to 2013.
Later in her mandate, she carried out a review of the CAP. This review, which became known as the “CAP Health Check”, made further policy adjustments to ensure that the reformed CAP was working as intended and was addressing the challenges of the 21st century.
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