CAP reform beyond 2013: An idea for a longer view

Within the framework of the CAP Health Check, Notre Europe publishes «CAP reform beyond 2013: An idea for a longer view». This publication is the result of a Task Force work launched by Notre Europe in the end of 2005. Its aim is not to comment on the different proposals made by the Commission under the Heatlh Check, but to take a broader point of view. The ambition of this contribution is to reconsider without taboos the objectives of a European farm policy with a long view; to assess the instruments currently in place; and, drawing lessons from the past, to make suggestions on how to design the future CAP due in 2013.