Links Between Rural Development and Direct Payments Based on the “CAP Reform” of 2013

  • Péter Hegyes University of Szeged, Faculty of Law

Abstract

The 2013 reform, challenges, objectives and trends of the Common Agricultural Policy (hereinafter referred to as CAP) was set out by the Communication from the Commission1 to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled “The CAP towards 2020: Meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future.” According to this document, rural development policy “has proved its value by reinforcing the sustainability of the EU's farm sector and rural areas – economically, environmentally and socially.” Placing emphasis on the necessity that, for the sake of efficiency, it will be essential to strengthen the coherence between rural development policy and other EU policies, it also secures the importance of ensuring harmony among the measures pertaining to different pillars of the CAP.

Published
2014-10-01
Section
Cikkek