financing of the common agricultural policy

One option which must not be implemented is a possible renationalising of the financing of the common agricultural policy.

Another crisis was triggered in regard to proposals for the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy, which came into force in 1962.

(PL) Mr President, we are debating an important report concerning the financing of the common agricultural policy.

This report on the financing of the common agricultural policy is also - as you have already mentioned, Commissioner - closely connected to the report on rural development.

It involved the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy, but almost more importantly the use of qualified majority voting in the EC (as opposed to unanimity).

Whatever the decisions by the budget authority, it needs to be stressed that they cannot put into question the appropriate financing of the common agricultural policy on the basis of the existing regulations.

The discussion which the Heads of State and Government had on the future financing of the common agricultural policy also took account, to a large extent, of the need for budgetary stabilisation.

Vice-President of the Commission. - Mr President, thank you for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about the report on Regulation 1290/2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy.

Mr Siekierski's report on the distribution of food to the most deprived persons raises issues covered in Council regulations which refer to financing of the common agricultural policy and to specific provisions in that material.

(PL) Mr President, today's report on the financing of the common agricultural policy, and especially the matter of its transparency, are of huge importance for social acceptance of residents of the Community, and primarily for European farmers.

I welcome the fact that in relation to the sensitive area of the future financing of the common agricultural policy that EU leaders agreed that direct payments to farmers in current EU Member States would remain stable until 2006.

France rejected the idea of the increased powers of Parliament and of the Community having its own independent revenues, insisting on what had been agreed by the Council regarding the financing of the common agricultural policy being implemented by 30 June 1965.

The issue that triggered the empty chair crisis was the financing of the common agricultural policy, which was of critical interest to France: from 1962 to 1964, France had received 46 million US dollars from the agricultural fund, 85 per cent of all revenue.

It has already been possible to reach agreement on several key aspects of the future financing of the common agricultural policy: it was agreed to keep the agricultural guideline and review it before the first enlargement, and to set a ceiling below that which better reflects actual expenditure.

Council Regulation (EC) 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy provided for the creation of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) for the financing of rural development programmes.

The next item is the report by Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy - C6-0116/2007 -.