Agriculture and rural development: quality & sustainability 

• AER members' consultation on draft CAP regulations
  Access to the details of the consultation is restricted to AER members: please, log-in.

Please, send your contributions by 13 January to Estelle DELANGLE.

• AER seminar on CAP & non-EU regions
  

AER organised a seminar on the impacts of the CAP on third countries on 24 March 2011.

This event aimed at discussing how non-EU regions voice their interests and how they may influence EU policymaking. It sought also to analyse how candidates or potential candidates can best orient their agricultural and rural development policies with views to future enlargements of the EU.

The conclusions of the seminar served as a basis to the AER answer to the EC consultation on IPA that closed in April 2011.

The Common Agricultural Policy is due to be reformed by 2013:

• October 2011: Publication of the draft regulations on future CAP.
• 2012: Negotiations between Council, Parliament and the consultative bodies.

• By 1 Jan. 2014, CAP reform should be in place. 

• Conclusions of the AER seminar on CAP & non-EU members
  
  

• AER answer to the EC consultation
  
  AER answer to the EC consultation on the impacts of the scenarios presented in the communication of 18/11/2011

• AER position on the CAP post-2013
  
  AER official position on the future CAP, based on several declarations adopted since 2002 and on the reflection work carried out by the AER Working group on agriculture and rural development.

• AER survey on Rural Development
  
  In Spring 2009 AER launched a Europe-wide survey on rural development policies in order to prepare its position on the future CAP. The summary of the survey's results was published in September 2009.