Commission edges towards a modern, simplified CAP

The results of a three-month public consultation by the European Commission on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be published online and presented by EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Phil Hogan at a conference in Brusssels in July.

Modernising and simplifying the CAP, one of the EU’s longstanding policies, is aimed at allowing it to better respond to today’s social, political, environmental and economic challenges.

The Commission said a modernised and simplified CAP would address the key challenges that agriculture and rural areas are facing.