The following gave evidence. Those marked * gave oral and written evidence. Those without an asterisk gave written evidence only.

*Councillor Patricia Aston, Local Government International Bureau

The Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionary Association

*Mr Reimer Boege MEP

*Ms Christina Borchmann, European Commission

*Ms Lisa Bremner, Local Government International Bureau

British Sugar plc

*Ms Eleanor Brooks, United Kingdom Representation

*Ms Fiona Bryant, East of England Development Agency

*Professor Allan Buckwell, Country Land and Business Association

*Mr Franc But, Slovenian Secretary of State for Agriculture and Food

*Mr Dacian Ciolos, Government of Romania

The Commercial Farmers Group

*Mr Mugur Craciun, Romanian Secretary of State for European Integration

*Dr Sophia Davidova, Imperial College, London

*Ms Melanie Dawes, Her Majesty's Treasury

*Mr Jean-Luc Demarty, European Commission

*Dr Janet Dwyer, University of Gloucestershire

Environment Agency

*Mr Mark Felton, English Nature

*Dr Franz Fischler, formerly of the European Commission

*Mr Mark Thomasin-Foster, European Landowners' Organisation

*Mr Martin Haworth, National Farmers' Union

*Mr Dariusz Laska, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU in Brussels

*Mr Andrew Lawrence, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

*Mr Stefan Lehner, European Commission

*Mr Thierry De L'Escaille, European Landowners' Organisation

*Mr Simon Michel-Berger, Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the European Union and General Confederation of Agricultural Co-operatives in the European Union

*Ms Shelby Matthews, Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the European Union and General Confederation of Agricultural Co-operatives in the European Union

*Mr Wieslaw Moldawa, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU in Brussels

National Farmers' Union of Scotland

National Sheep Association

*Mr Martin Nesbit, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

*Professor Michel Petit, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon

*Mr Marco Pecci-Boriani, European Commission

*Mr Corrado Pirizio-Biroli, European Landowners' Organisation

*Mr Wladyslaw Piskorz, Minister Counsellor in the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU in Brussels

*Mr Séan Rickard, Cranfield School of Management

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

*Mr Alastair Rutherford, English Nature

*Mr Bojan Skoda, Slovenian Embassy

*Mr Claus SØrenson, European Commission

*Sir Harry Studholme, South West Regional Development Agency

*Mrs Carmen Suarez, National Farmers' Union

*Mr Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary, Her Majesty's Treasury

*Mr David Thomas, Her Majesty's Treasury

*Emeritus Professor Kenneth Thomson, University of Aberdeen

*Ms Carmen Turturea, Government of Romania

*Mr Dusan Vujandinovic, Government of Slovenia

Which?

*Lord Whitty, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

*Mr Terry Wynn MEP

Information was also received from Dr Simon Bilsborough, Senior Economist, Countryside Council for Wales and from Professor Johan Swinnen, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. It has not been printed, but is available for inspection at the House of Lords Record Office (020 7219 5314).

Supplementary evidence was also received from Dr Janet Dwyer, Reader in Rural Studies, Countryside and Community Research Unit, University of Gloucestershire and Senior Associate, Institute for European Environmental Policy and from Mr Alastair Rutherford, Head of Agriculture, English Nature in conjunction with the Environment Agency. It has not been printed, but is also available for inspection at the House of Lords Record Office.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank all our witnesses for their submissions to our inquiry.