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Commissioner Cioloş: "The Common Agriculture Policy has never been written in stone" 
06/01/2011
Commissioner for EU Agriculture Dacian Cioloş attended the Oxford Farming Conference, talking about the challenges and opportunities of European agriculture beyond 2013.
"The Common Agriculture Policy has never been written in stone – it is a living policy, which has changed enormously over the past 25 years. These changes have already fundamentally altered the relationship between farmers, Governments and markets. Well over 90% of European agricultural payments are decoupled from production. In 2010, export subsidies were well under 1% of the CAP budget. It is the markets which are now the key driver in production decisions, not European subsidies. So there has been a fundamental shift in the CAP to make it market sensitive. We must now build on this, so that the CAP stays in tune with changing times and responds to new challenges" stated the EU commissioner .
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