La PAC en débat : regards sur nos partenaires européens

Abstract

Pluriagri, 43-45, rue de Naples 75008 Paris, France Abstract: While the debate about the health check of the Common Agricultural Policy is starting, what lessons can be drawn from the implementation of the previous 2003 CAP reform in the different UE Member states? The EU Commission granted a large flexibility to EU-15 Member states to implement the Single Payment Scheme (SPS). Pluriagri, an association created by the French producers of arable crops and Credit Agricole to achieve prospective analysis on agriculture and agricultural policies, made several interviews during the year 2007 in selected Member states to enlighten the first impacts of these various choices. An additional analysis of the first consequences of the accession on the agriculture of selected new Members is given (Poland, Hungary). This article points out that the effect of the implementation of the 2003 CAP reform started to be felt in the first year of implementation (2005/2006), then was rapidly masked by the improvement in agricultural markets and the bearing effect of bio energies. A question remains open: what would have been the situation if prices had remained low?