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CAP Reform and the Doha Development Agenda

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  • P. van Dijck
  • G. Faber

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The CAP reforms that the EU accepted in June 2003 will partially decouple direct income payments to farmers from production and make these payments conditional on cross-compliance. The reforms are driven by enlargement of EU membership, budgetary constraints, mounting pressures from diverse animal welfare, consumer and conservationist non-governmental organisations, and by external pressure for a less distorting agricultural policy. The paper addresses the issue whether these CAP reforms will contribute to an agreement in the Doha Development Round that will liberalize world trade in agricultural products. The paper argues that the 2003 CAP reforms have enabled the EU to participate more constructively in the multilateral trade negotiations compared to the Uruguay Round. However, the reforms do not create room for improved access to EU agricultural markets for third country producers. These countries insist on substantial tariff reductions that, if realized, will force down the relatively high internal EU prices, which would mean a further restructuring of the sector.

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  • P. van Dijck & G. Faber, 2004. "CAP Reform and the Doha Development Agenda," Working Papers 04-03, Utrecht School of Economics.
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    1. Messerlin, Patrick, 2003. "Agriculture in the Doha Agenda," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3009, The World Bank.
    2. Coleman, William D. & Tangermann, Stefan, 1998. "Linked games, international organisations and agricultural trade," MPIfG Discussion Paper 98/8, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
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    1. Halmai, Peter & Elekes, Andrea, 2005. "CAP Reform in the Light of the WTO Doha Round Negotiations," 2005 International Congress, August 23-27, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark 24693, European Association of Agricultural Economists.

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