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The Common Agricultural Policy is now governed at an external level by the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and more specifically by its Agreement on Agriculture of 15 April 1994.

This in-depth analysis is intended for MEPs of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development visiting the Netherlands in March 2016. The document provides a very concise overview of the country, describes its farming sector and details the implementation of the new EU’s Common Agricultural Policy for the 2014-2020 period. The Netherlands has a high-income, open, knowledge-based economy, which is gradually recovering from a protracted recession. As regards its agricultural ...