European Union - Second Report
Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 6 June 2005.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Introduction
Summary of Conclusions
Chapter 1: Funding Agricultural and Rural
Policy—the
EU Budget
Chapter 2: Introducing the Common Agricultural
Policy
Table 1: Commission's proposed expenditure
for Pillars 1
and 2 2007-2013
The Brussels Ceiling
Box 1: The Changing Face of the CAP
The Reformed CAP: Pillars 1 and 2
Box 2: What is cross-compliance?
Box 3: What is modulation?
Continuing reform: 2007-2013
Chapter 3: Strains on the CAP Budget
Table 2: European Commission's spending
projections for the
CAP 2006-2013
Implications of a 1% budget
Operation of the financial discipline mechanism
Box 4: The financial discipline mechanism
in practice
Bulgaria and Romania
The Brussels Ceiling
Chapter 4: Pillar 1 spending—is it
Justified?
The pros and cons of the single farm
payment
The future of Pillar 1
Chapter 5: Rural Development—The Rise
of Pillar 2
Box 5: The existing Regulation
New rural development arrangements
Box 6: The new Rural Development Policy
What does rural development achieve?
Is there a need for an EU rural development
policy?
Table 3: Translation of rural development
regulation
measures into schemes in England
Table 4: Total planned expenditure 2000-2007
on rural
development programmes by category
Financing rural development within the EU
Table 5: Funding available for Pillar 2 on
assumption that
Pillar 1 cannot change
Structure of EU financing
Box 7: The new Member States
Box 8: LEADER
Chapter 6: Global Pressures: The WTO
The end of subsidy in sight—the
impact on the CAP
Box 9: What are the WTO trade boxes?
Chapter 7: Looking Ahead: The CAP beyond
2013
Continued expansion of the Union
Appendix 1: Overview of the new financial
framework
2007-2013 as proposed by the Commission COM(2004) 498
Appendix 2: Breakdown of proposed agriculture
and fisheries expenditure
Appendix 3: Cross-compliance
Appendix 4: Membership of Sub-Committee D
Appendix 5: List of Witnesses
Appendix 6: Call for Evidence
Appendix 7: Glossary of Acronyms and Technical
Terms
Appendix 8: Recent Reports
NOTE:
The Report of the Committee is published in Volume
I, HL Paper No 7-I.
The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume
II, HL Paper
No 7-II.
ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE - HL 7-II
Oral Evidence
12 January 2005
19 January 2005
26 January 2005
2 February 2005
23 February 2005
2 March 2005
3 March 2005
8 March 2005
9 March 2005
15 March 2005
16 March 2005
23 March 2005
Written Evidence
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