Environmental Public Goods in the New CAP : Impact of Greening Proposals and Possible Alternatives
Study
15-03-2012
This note discusses the greening component of direct payments in the Commission’s legislative proposals of October 2011 for the Common Agricultural Policy in the period after 2014. Based on an analysis of their likely consequences it puts forward a range of options for the consideration of MEPs for how these proposals might be amended to improve their environmental impact, to reduce their administrative complexity and to improve their cost-effectiveness, including possible alternatives.
Study
External author
Alan Matthews (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- accounting
- agri-environmental plan
- agricultural policy
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- cost-effectiveness analysis
- cultivation of agricultural land
- economic geography
- eligibility criteria
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental impact
- environmental policy
- EU finance
- Europe
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- GEOGRAPHY
- grassland
- mixed cropping
- organic farming
- political geography
- proposal (EU)
- reform of the CAP
- sustainable agriculture
- Switzerland