European Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development
- European Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development
European Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development is a member of the European Commission. The post is currently held by Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel (ALDE)
The post is in charge of rural issues including most notably the controversial Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which represents 44% of the EU budget.
Current commissioner
In June 2006 Commissioner Fischer Boel set out a plan to tackle Europe's "Wine lakes" - the overproduction of wine due to and subsidies. Reducing production, in party by wiping out areas of vineyards and increasing quality to compete with New World wines should keep Europe as a major wine exporter and get rid of "crisis distillation" - turning excess wine into fuel and industrial alcohol. [ [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ad2d7c32-01fc-11db-a141-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=ff3cbaf6-3024-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html EU lays out plans to tackle wine crisis] ft.com]
In January 2007 she caused anger among a number of European farmers for stating that, after 2013, agricultural subsidies would face substantial cuts. She aims to have the agricultural policy included in the 2008-2009 budget review as requested by the United Kingdom. [ [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/190cca12-9f86-11db-9e2e-0000779e2340.html Paris fury at threat to farm cash] ft.com] She has also been seeking to simplify the regulation of the CAP. [ [http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/simplification/index_en.htm Simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)] ec.europa.eu]
List of commissioners
ee also
* Directorate-General for Agriculture & Rural Development
* Common Agricultural Policy
* Single Payment Scheme
* Land Allocation Decision Support System
* AgriGrid
* Protected designation of origin
* Doha Development Round
References
External links
* [http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/fischer-boel/index_en.htm Commissioner's website]
** [http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/fischer-boel Commissioners blog]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/index_en.htm Commission Agriculture website]
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