CAP health check ‘more than just review of reforms’

THE upcoming health check on the Common Agricultural Policy will be more than just a review of previous European reforms, the delegates to the World Dairy Summit in Dublin were told yesterday.

Ann Randles, secretary general of Brussels-based group, EUCOLAIT, representing European dairy traders, said the health check will assess whether past objectives have been met, but will also look at what needs to be done to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

“Crucially, it will act as a forerunner to negotiations in 2009 on the future funding of the EU post-2013 and, if necessary, a new world trade agreement,” she said.