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REGIONAL REVIEW: MORE CAP REFORM ON THE HORIZON

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have to be initiated in a policy document from the Commission, nothing
official has been done. The Commission is due to initiate its proposals in
November. They're going for the end
of November."

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ing on for as long as it can.
"Because you have a new commissioner, Dacian Ciolos, he needed time
to bed into his job," said Whyte. "He
knows the whole of the CAP's future
will be decided on his watch."
Ciolos launched a consultation, starting on April 12, on four basic questions:
Why do we need a CAP? What do citizens expect from agriculture? Why reform the CAP? What tools do we need
for the CAP of tomorrow?
"All of society benefits from the
CAP through food, land-use management, the environment," Ciolos said.
"But are Europeans aware of this?
The answer is no, or in any case, not
enough. The Common Agricultural
Policy suffers from a lack of exchange
with European society."
By the time the consultation closed,
they received 5,474 valid responses,
having weeded some out for abusiveness, irrelevance or incoherence. Commissioner Ciolos welcomed what he
called the strong public participation.
The results were to be publicized in
late July, after World Grain had gone
to press.
Since the last round of reform, the
way Europe is governed has changed
dramatically. All of a sudden, under the
Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force
on Dec. 1, 2009, the European Parliament has some teeth on farming policy.
Before the treaty went into effect, the
Parliament could talk but had little real
power.
Realizing the opportunity, Scottish
Liberal Democrat Member George Lyons of the European Parliament got his
colleagues to vote on a resolution letting
the Commission know what the Parliament wants to see. "It's an own-initiative
response" explained Whyte. "George
Lyons decided he wanted Parliament to
take a view. It's not legislative, but it is
Parliament's view."
BIGGEST CHALLENGES
According to the MEPs, the big challenges facing the farming world include
climate change, the need for secure food

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