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| Table of Treaties and Conventions xlvii |
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| Abbreviations |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (6) |
| 1. The Early Development of the European Model of Agriculture |
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7 | (50) |
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1. The Special Status of Agriculture |
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7 | (13) |
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7 | (1) |
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1.2. The Special Status of Agriculture at Community Level |
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8 | (4) |
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1.3. The Special Status of Agriculture at National Level |
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12 | (1) |
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1.4. A Declining Economic Role for Agriculture |
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13 | (1) |
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1.5. Justifications for Continued 'Exceptionalism' |
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14 | (6) |
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2. The Treaty of Rome and Developments Prior to the MacSharry Reforms |
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20 | (20) |
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20 | (2) |
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2.2. The Common Organizations of the Market |
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22 | (2) |
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2.3. Early Developments Beyond the Common Organizations of the Market |
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24 | (16) |
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24 | (1) |
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2.3.2. Structural and Regional Policy |
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24 | (7) |
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24 | (2) |
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2.3.2.2. The Structural Directives |
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26 | (2) |
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2.3.2.3. Council Directive 75/268/EEC |
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28 | (2) |
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2.3.2.4. Targeted Structural Measures and the Structural Funds |
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30 | (1) |
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2.3.3. Environmental Policy |
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31 | (3) |
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2.3.4. Council Regulation (EEC) 797/85: A More Comprehensive Programme |
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34 | (3) |
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2.3.5. Indications of a Multifunctional Agriculture |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (13) |
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40 | (2) |
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3.2. The Shift Away from Price and Market Support to Direct Payments |
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42 | (6) |
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42 | (1) |
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3.2.2. The Cereals Sector: A Template |
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43 | (4) |
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3.2.3. Limitations on Production |
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47 | (1) |
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3.3. The Accompanying Measures |
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48 | (2) |
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3.4. The 'Greening' of Existing Measures |
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50 | (2) |
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3.5. The Retreat from Modulation |
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52 | (1) |
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4. Other Multifunctional Measures Prior to the Agenda 2000 Reforms |
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53 | (4) |
| 2. Agenda 2000: Towards the Berlin Summit |
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57 | (49) |
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57 | (5) |
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2. Pressures Driving Reform |
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62 | (20) |
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2.1. The Community Perspective |
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62 | (8) |
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62 | (1) |
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2.1.2. Participation in World Markets |
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63 | (1) |
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2.1.3. Acceptability of the Common Agricultural Policy |
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64 | (1) |
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2.1.4. A Proper Level of Subsidiarity |
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65 | (2) |
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2.1.5. Eastward Enlargement |
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67 | (1) |
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2.1.6. World Trade Considerations |
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68 | (2) |
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2.2. Wider Considerations |
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70 | (12) |
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2.2.1. The OECD and Multifunctionality |
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70 | (4) |
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2.2.2. The Agricultural Recession |
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74 | (8) |
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74 | (1) |
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2.2.2.2. Agricultural Markets: Prices and Incomes |
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75 | (1) |
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2.2.2.3. Agricultural Structures |
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76 | (1) |
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2.2.2.4. The Broader Role of the Agricultural Industry |
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76 | (2) |
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2.2.2.5. The Restructuring of the Food Chain |
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78 | (1) |
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2.2.2.6. The Impact of BSE and FMD |
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79 | (3) |
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82 | (1) |
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3. The Agenda 2000 Document and Negotiations |
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82 | (24) |
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3.1. The Agenda 2000 Document |
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82 | (10) |
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3.1.1. Assessment of the Reform Process, the Long-term Outlook, and Policy Objectives |
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82 | (3) |
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3.1.2. The Detailed Proposals |
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85 | (7) |
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85 | (1) |
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3.1.2.2. Common Organizations of the Market |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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3.1.2.2.4. Milk and Milk Products |
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88 | (1) |
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3.1.2.2.5. Individual Ceilings |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (2) |
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3.2. The 1998 Proposed Regulations |
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92 | (14) |
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3.2.1. Introduction and the 1998 Explanatory Memorandum |
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92 | (3) |
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3.2.2. The Detailed Proposals |
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95 | (8) |
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95 | (1) |
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3.2.2.2. Common Organizations of the Market |
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96 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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3.2.2.2.3. Milk and Milk Products |
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98 | (3) |
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101 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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3.2.2.5. Horizontal Measures |
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102 | (1) |
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3.2.3. Conclusion and Responses |
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103 | (3) |
| 3. From the Berlin Summit to the Mid-term Review |
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106 | (69) |
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106 | (24) |
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106 | (1) |
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1.2. The Political Agreement |
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107 | (5) |
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107 | (1) |
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1.2.2. Common Organizations of the Market |
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108 | (2) |
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108 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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1.2.2.3. Milk and Milk Products |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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1.2.4. Horizontal Measures |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (18) |
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112 | (3) |
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1.3.2. Common Organizations of the Market |
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115 | (6) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (1) |
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1.3.2.4. Milk and Milk Products |
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117 | (4) |
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121 | (1) |
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1.3.4. Financing Measures |
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122 | (1) |
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1.3.5. Horizontal Measures |
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123 | (1) |
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1.3.6. The Reform of the Structural Funds |
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123 | (3) |
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1.3.7. Funding Eastward Enlargement |
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126 | (4) |
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130 | (45) |
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130 | (2) |
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2.2. Reform Outside the Common Organizations of the Market |
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132 | (26) |
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132 | (1) |
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2.2.2. Food Safety and Food Quality |
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133 | (9) |
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142 | (13) |
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142 | (2) |
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2.2.3.2. Directive 2001/18/EC |
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144 | (6) |
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2.2.3.3. The Legislation on Traceability and Labelling and on Genetically Modified Food and Feed |
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150 | (2) |
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2.2.3.4. Environmental Liability |
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152 | (3) |
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155 | (3) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (18) |
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159 | (3) |
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2.4.2. The Policy Document |
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162 | (6) |
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2.4.2.1. Stabilizing Markets and Improving Common Organizations of the Market |
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162 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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2.4.2.1.3 Milk and Milk Products |
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163 | (1) |
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2.4.2.2. Achieving Simpler and More Sustainable Direct Support |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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2.4.2.2.2. The Single Decoupled Income Payment per Farm |
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164 | (1) |
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2.4.2.2.3. Conditions Attached to the Single Decoupled Income Payment per Farm |
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165 | (1) |
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2.4.2.3. Securing a Better Balance of Support as Between Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development |
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166 | (2) |
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2.4.2.4. Consolidating and Strengthening Rural Development |
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168 | (1) |
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2.4.3. The Proposed Regulations to Implement the Mid-term Review |
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168 | (3) |
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171 | (4) |
| 4. The Two Pillars of the Common Agricultural Policy |
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175 | (88) |
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175 | (2) |
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177 | (32) |
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2.1. Competitiveness in Terms of Price |
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177 | (3) |
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2.2. Competitiveness in Terms of Quality |
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180 | (2) |
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2.3. Direct Payments and Limitations on Production |
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182 | (3) |
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2.4. The Advantages of Direct Payments |
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185 | (18) |
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185 | (1) |
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2.4.2. Certainty and Scope for Further Reform |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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2.4.5. The Opportunity to Attach Multifunctional Conditions |
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188 | (9) |
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188 | (1) |
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2.4.5.2. The 1999 Horizontal Regulation |
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189 | (5) |
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2.4.5.3. Detailed Measures Within the Common Organizations of the Market |
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194 | (2) |
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2.4.5.4. The Mid-term Review |
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196 | (1) |
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2.4.6. The Opportunity to Modulate Direct Payments |
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197 | (6) |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (3) |
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209 | (25) |
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3.1. Efficacy of Earlier Rural Development Measures |
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209 | (8) |
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3.1.1. Rural Development Measures Prior to the MacSharry Reforms |
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209 | (2) |
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3.1.2. Rural Development Measures Following the MacSharry Reforms |
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211 | (6) |
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3.2. The Scope and Character of Initiatives Introduced Following the Berlin Summit, together with National Implementation |
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217 | (16) |
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217 | (3) |
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3.2.2. Budgetary Implications |
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220 | (4) |
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3.2.3. Amendments to Rural Development Measures |
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224 | (9) |
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224 | (1) |
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3.2.3.2. Detailed Amendments |
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225 | (1) |
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225 | (1) |
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3.2.3.2.2. Less-favoured Areas and Areas with Environmental Restrictions |
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225 | (1) |
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3.2.3.2.3. Agri-environmental Measures |
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227 | (1) |
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3.2.3.2.4. The More General 'Greening' of Support |
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228 | (1) |
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3.2.3.2.5. The More General Reinforcement of the Multifunctional Nature of Support |
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230 | (3) |
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233 | (1) |
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3.3.1. A Further Step Towards Multifunctionality |
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233 | (1) |
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3.3.2. Budgetary Implications |
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234 | (1) |
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234 | (29) |
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234 | (1) |
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4.2. Problems of Definition |
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235 | (6) |
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235 | (3) |
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4.2.2. 'Usual Good Farming Practice Including Good Animal Husbandry Practice' |
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238 | (3) |
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4.3. Monitoring and Evaluation |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (3) |
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246 | (10) |
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246 | (1) |
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4.5.2. Environmental Protection Requirements and Agri-environmental Commitments |
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246 | (6) |
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4.5.3. The Milk Quota Regime |
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252 | (4) |
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4.6. Equal Treatment and the Scope for Distortions in the Market |
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256 | (8) |
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256 | (1) |
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4.6.2. 'National Envelopes' |
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257 | (2) |
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4.6.3. Environmental Measures |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (3) |
| 5. Beyond the First and Second Pillars |
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263 | (56) |
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263 | (1) |
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2. Food Safety and Food Quality |
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264 | (21) |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (13) |
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265 | (1) |
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2.2.2. The Role of Food Safety in the Emerging General Principles of Community Food Law |
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266 | (3) |
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2.2.3. Wider Consideration of the Precautionary Principle |
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269 | (4) |
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2.2.4. The Approach Adopted to Risk by the European Court of Justice in the BSE Litigation |
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273 | (3) |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (7) |
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285 | (16) |
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285 | (2) |
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3.2. Public Attitudes to GMOs |
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287 | (3) |
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3.3. The Role of the Precautionary Principle |
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290 | (2) |
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3.4. Other Factors to be Taken into Account in the Environmental Risk Assessment |
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292 | (1) |
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3.5. Acceptance of Tolerance Levels |
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293 | (4) |
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3.6. Environmental Liability |
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297 | (4) |
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4. Legal Aspects of Animal Welfare |
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301 | (11) |
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301 | (2) |
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303 | (5) |
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4.3. Factors Mitigating Against Rigorous Animal Welfare Provisions |
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308 | (2) |
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4.4. The Protocol on Protection and Welfare of Animals |
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310 | (2) |
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5. The Place of Agriculture in the Food Chain |
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312 | (7) |
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312 | (2) |
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5.2. Producer Structures and Direct Marketing |
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314 | (5) |
| 6. The WTO and Eastward Enlargement of the European Union |
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319 | (86) |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (68) |
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2.1. An Outline of the Framework Imposed by the URAA |
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320 | (6) |
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2.2. The Presentation of the European Model of Agriculture during the Current Agriculture Negotiations |
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326 | (11) |
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326 | (1) |
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2.2.2. Trade Liberalization |
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327 | (3) |
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2.2.3. The Other 'Main Lines' of the European Model of Agriculture |
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330 | (5) |
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2.2.4. Multifunctionality: The Building of a Consensus |
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335 | (2) |
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2.3. The Defensibility of the European Model of Agriculture during the Current Agriculture Negotiations |
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337 | (51) |
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337 | (4) |
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341 | (4) |
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2.3.3. The Impact of the Agenda 2000 Reforms on the 'Blue Box' |
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345 | (12) |
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345 | (1) |
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2.3.3.2. The Cereals Sector Following the Berlin Summit |
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346 | (1) |
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346 | (1) |
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2.3.3.2.2. The Imposition of Base Areas |
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346 | (1) |
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2.3.3.2.3. The Calculation of Payment by Reference to Average Regional Yields |
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348 | (1) |
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2.3.3.2.4. The Set-aside Obligation |
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349 | (1) |
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2.3.3.3. The Livestock Sector Following the Berlin Summit |
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350 | (1) |
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2.3.3.3.1. Suckler Cow Premium |
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350 | (1) |
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2.3.3.3.2. Sheep Annual Premium |
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351 | (1) |
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2.3.3.3.3. Beef Special Premium |
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351 | (1) |
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2.3.3.3.4. 'National Envelopes' and the Dairy Premium |
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352 | (1) |
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2.3.3.4. The 'Greening' of the 'Blue Box' |
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353 | (1) |
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2.3.3.5. The Mid-term Review |
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353 | (2) |
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2.3.3.6. Comparison with the United States |
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355 | (2) |
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2.3.4. The Agenda 2000 Reforms and the 'Green Box' |
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357 | (8) |
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357 | (1) |
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2.3.4.2. The Berlin Summit and the 'Green Box' |
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358 | (1) |
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358 | (1) |
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2.3.4.2.2. Comparison with the United States |
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362 | (2) |
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2.3.4.3. The Mid-term Review |
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364 | (1) |
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2.3.5. Food Quality, Food Safety, and Animal Welfare |
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365 | (32) |
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365 | (3) |
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2.3.5.2. 'Higher Standards' |
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368 | (8) |
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2.3.5.3. Specific Difficulties with regard to GMOs |
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376 | (1) |
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376 | (1) |
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2.3.5.3.2. The SPS Agreement and the TBT Agreement |
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377 | (8) |
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2.3.5.4. The Cartagena Protocol |
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385 | (3) |
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388 | (17) |
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388 | (4) |
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3.2. The Effect of Pre-accession Measures |
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392 | (5) |
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3.3. Negotiating Issues which have Impacted upon the Development of the European Model of Agriculture |
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397 | (6) |
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397 | (1) |
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397 | (1) |
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3.3.3. The Fixing of Quotas and Other Supply Management Instruments |
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398 | (1) |
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399 | (4) |
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3.3.5. The Mid-term Review |
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403 | (1) |
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3.4. Prohibitions and Restrictions on the Purchase of Agricultural Land |
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403 | (2) |
| Conclusion |
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405 | (10) |
| Bibliography |
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415 | (22) |
| Index |
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