The Common Agricultural Policy
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- The Common Agricultural Policy
- Formation
- By the 'Treaty of Rome' in 1957
- To provide European farmers with fair income
- To ensure food supply for EU states
- Why support Farmers?
- 3 Problems for farmers
- 1. Farmer's wages fallen
- 2. Farm prices are unstable
- 3. Lost power to supermarkets
- Large economic income
- Wine Lakes
- 3 Problems for farmers
- Reform
- 'Set Aside' Programs set up
- UK in 1988
- Limit Production
- Fixed Quotas for milk
- Penalites
- Fixed Quotas for milk
- Early 1990s, less guaranteed prices, more direct subsidies
- Agenda 2000
- Abbots Hall Farm
- 'Set Aside' Programs set up
- Examples of EU protection
- SUGAR
- £400 / ton
- Total about $1.5m
- SUGAR
- Textiles?
- Since 1970, EU opposed tariffs & quotas on Textile imports
- 2005, EU banned textile imports from China, due to an exceeded quota
- Formation
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