The EU common agriculture policy and a changing world trade order

Contents Introduction 5 1 The Common Agricultural Policy 6 1.1 Principle and Methods 6 1.2 Reforms 9 1.2.1 The 1992 ‘MacSharry’ Reform 9 1.2.2 1999 – Decentralisation and Decoupling 11 1.2.3 The Reforms of 2003 – Implementing Multifunctionality 12 1.3 Trade Impact of Agricultural Subsidies 14 1.4 The Sugar Regime 16 1.4.1 Principles 16 1.4.2 Distortion of Trade and Development 18 1.4.3 Reforming the Sugar Policy 20 1.4.4 Preparing for Hong Kong 22 1.5 Multifunctionality - A New Role for an Old Policy 23 2 The CAP and World Trade 27 2.1 Development 27 2.2 The Essential Agriculture 29 2.3 The Boxes 31 2.4 Why Free Trade for Agriculture? 34 2.5 The Agreement on Agriculture 36 2.6 Developing Countries 40 2.7 Analysis 42 3 Negotiating Agriculture 46 3.1 A European Point of View 46 3.1.1 The Goals of the EU 46 3.1.2 Differing Opinions within the Union 49 3.2 Multifunctionality 49 3.2.1 The Cairns Group 50 3.2.2 An American Perspective 52 3.3 Developing Countries 54 3.3.1 Which Developing Countries? 54 3.3.2 Developing countries and multifunctionality 57 3.4 Analysis 59 Conclusion 60 Literature 63 Die Publikation ist auch als e-Book im pdf-Format erhältlich.