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The OECD Workshop on the Disaggregated Impacts of CAP Reforms was held in Paris on 10-11 March 2010. It was organised as part of a wider project to evaluate 25 years of reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. The workshop focused on reforms since 2003 and their impact at the national, regional and farm levels.
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At a time when the post-2013 future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is being discussed, it is important to review the impact of past reforms and to draw lessons. The CAP has regularly been reviewed and adjusted to improve its performance and adequacy to changing circumstances. Successive reforms have reduced market intervention and border protection, and increased the share of direct payments to producers in total support. Payments have been gradually delinked from current production or production factors to the extent that a large share of payments is now granted with no requirement to produce. Decoupling support from current parameters has contributed to making producers more responsive to market signals. Through a mechanism of transfers of funds from the first to the second pillar of the CAP, called “modulation,” reforms have also increased the share of payments targeted to specific objectives, such as improving the environmental performance of agriculture or its competitiveness.
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