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This is a 6 page paper discussing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and recent issues with the EU, WTO and US. Since the food shortages during the war years in Europe, agricultural policy has remained a key objective within the European community. The formal principles of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were established at the Stresa Conference in 1958 which were adopted by the six founding Member States in 1962. The main objectives of the CAP include: the increase of agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress and optimizing labor; to ensure a fair standard of living to the agricultural community; to stabilize markets; to assure the availability of supplies; and to ensure the supplies reach the consumers at reasonable prices. Within recent years, the European Union (EU) has been pressured to reform CAP within the goals of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which relate to opening world trade, reducing subsidies and import tariffs, and ending the dumping of surplus; reforms which are opposed by France, Germany and some of the other member states in the EU.
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within the European community. While the Treaty of Rome outlines the general objectives of a common agricultural policy in Europe, the formal principles of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were
established at the Stresa Conference in 1958 which were adopted by the six founding Member States in 1962. The CAP has however grown to affect a larger number of countries
reflecting the growing European Union. Initially the European Union consisted of the six countries of Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands which have since been joined by Denmark,
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland, and Sweden with an additional ten countries expected to join in 2004 (EU, 2001). The CAP not only sets a number
of common rules for the production, trade and processing of agricultural products in the EU and consists of almost 50% of the EU budget, but it is also considered a
symbolic representation "of sovereignty transferred from the national to the European level" (EU, 2001). The main objectives of the CAP include: the increase of agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress
and optimizing labor; to ensure a fair standard of living to the agricultural community; to stabilize markets; to assure the availability of supplies; and to ensure the supplies reach the
consumers at reasonable prices (EU, 2001). Article 34 of the EC Treaty also adds the creation of the "common organization of the agricultural markets (COM)" which have common rules
on competition, have a "compulsory co-ordination of the various market organizations" and has a European market organization (EU, 2001). Lastly, three main principles, originally formed in 1962 tell of the
concept of a "unified market" which "denotes the free movement of agricultural products within the area of the Member States"; a "community preference" which means that "EU agricultural products are
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