The impacts of the common agricultural policy (CAP) in France

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

10 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/07/2009

Category :

Law & contracts

Sub category :

Administrative law

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Summary :

Introduction
1962-1992: Productivism
1. Origins and evolutions of the CAP
Positive economic impacts of the CAP in France from 1962 to 1992
1. A transfer from agriculture to industry
2. An improvement of the living condition for the agricultural actives
3. A positive 'balance des paiements'
Negative economic impacts of the CAP in France from 1962 to 1992
1. Productivism and stocks
2. Other negatives impacts: Environment and society
New learning
1. What is changing in the CAP: A wave of reforms
2. United States discontent and GATT negotiations
3. Mac Sharry reform
4. Others new reforms
Positive economic impacts of the CAP in France since 1992
1. New CAP, same situation?
2. Taking into account new factors of development
Negative economic impacts of the CAP in France since 1992
1. The bad repartitions of the direct subsidies
2. Environmental and health issues
3. The discontent of French farmers
References

Abstract

The cap is often considered as a debate of the specialists since this is a very complex and technical topic, but nowadays there is a huge public debate on this policy which is one of the most important European policy and also one of the most expensive one. In May 2006 there was the biggest reform of the cap with the adhesion of ten new countries which means there will be a new evaluation of the agricultural expending. This concept risks in restoring tensions between the Great Britain which wants to reduce its contributions and france which is largely been benefiting from this policy. Indeed, cap seems to be too costly, it takes 40% of the European budget whereas there is only 2% of GDP and 3% of the active population concerned. The cap is mainly based on measurement of subsidies in order to modernize agriculture.