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ARTICLE · 31 MAY 2007

Rural Development And Modulation

The devolved UK governments have plans for their RD programmes for the 2007-13 period. But more money is required, and so VM will be used to cover the shortfall.

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The devolved UK governments have plans for their RD programmes for the 2007-13 period. But more money is required, and so VM will be used to cover the shortfall.

Pillar II of the CAP is rural development (RD). On her appointment, Commissioner Fischer-Boel announced that this pillar would be the primary focus of her term in office. Indeed, at that point, the name of the department quietly changed from ‘Agriculture and Fisheries’ to ‘Agriculture and Rural Development’. In 2005, when EU heads of state decided upon the overriding budget for the financial period 2007-13, these good intentions took a battering. The amounts of funding available for the CAP were constrained, and it was politically more acceptable to squeeze the RD spend for the period rather than the Single Payment.

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