The consultation on the Future of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – including Rural Development policy - will be launched on 2 February 2017.

The announcement by Phil Hogan, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, came during the Commissioner’s presence at International Green Week in Berlin. He confirmed “Our aim is to look ways how to modernise and simplify the CAP. I am well aware of the complexity of our policy and I am dedicated to making the CAP simpler.”