ECVC has published its recommendations on the CAP Common Market Organisation (CMO), following the Strategic Dialogue recommendations, the Commission non-paper on the position of farmers in the food supply chain, and in the context of preparation of the next CAP reform.
For Morgan Ody, ECVC Coordinating Committee member and farmer in Brittany, “The EU is about to elaborate its future CAP reform, and so this regulation is of utmost strategic importance. It is how we will achieve the Strategic Dialogue recommendation to ensure farmers incomes are based on good market prices and move away from area-based payments of CAP subsidies. The CMO contains many tools to make changes in this direction and needs to be strengthened.”
Andoni Garcia, also a member of the ECVC Coordinating Committee added, “We are making these recommendations in the context of the announced revision of the CMO by the commission in its paper on improving the position of farmers in the food supply chain. ECVC supports the strengthening of art 210b. regarding sustainability, but also provides concrete guidelines about how to go further to reach the EU’s food, climate change and environmental objectives, addressing what we now know is key: better prices paid to farmers. An ambitious revision of the CMO would allow major advances in terms of economic, social and environmental justice.”
Through its recommendations, ECVC details concretely how the next CMO can and must:
- Ensure prices that cover production costs for producers
- Regulate the volumes produced and the volumes placed on the market
- Manage bufferstocks publicly
- Modulate producer organisations to ensure effective participation of farmers
- Support the agroecological transition and sustainable agricultural practices
- Strengthening the crisis prevention and management policy
- Increase import regulation
Read the full recommendations here.
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Next CAP must prioritise Common Market Organisation revision to build European food sovereignty
Contact information
Morgan Ody
EN, FR
ECVC Coordinating Committee
+33 626 97 76 43
Andoni Garcia Arriola
EUR, ES
ECVC Coordinating Committee
+34 636451569