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CAP Reform and Crop Policy Team
D Spur, Saughton House
Edinburgh EH11 3XD
Tel: 0300 244 9505

SRDP meetings

May 16 – Thainstone mart – 7pm

May 20 – Dumfries, Cairndale Hotel – 7pm

May 21 – Lanark Mart – 7pm

May 23 – Tarbert Village Hall – 12.45pm

May 28 – Stornoway, Caberfeidh Hotel – 7pm

May 30 – Ayr, Western House Hotel – 7pm

June 3 – Benbecula, Dark Isle Hotel – 7pm

June 5 – Lerwick, Shetland Museum – 7pm

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Common Agricultural Policy

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The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is critical for Scotland's agricultural industry. This is a vital opportunity to determine the future of CAP up to 2020.

The European Commission have published their proposals to reform the system - which provides agricultural subsidies and programmes throughout the EU.

The Scottish Government is lobbying to ensure Scotland's diverse farming needs are well represented in the reformed policy. This will continue in coming months and a programme of public meetings and consultation has taken place to gather stakeholders' views.

The latest information relating to CAP reform in Scotland can be found on these pages. Other ways to keep up to speed are by signing up for the rural newsletter, reading the blog or following @GreenerScotland on Twitter.

What's new

The first of two consultations on the future shape of the SRDP is now underway, looking at the big picture. You can find out more at a series of public meetings ongoing throughout Scotland.

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Details of the slides and presentations from the recent CAP Moving Forward conference are now online, giving a flavour of how CAP might look in future. Please have a look and let us know what you think of the various scenarios.

In focus - CAP moving forward

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The future shape of CAP in Scotland has come under close scrutiny at a Scottish Government conference on CAP moving forward.

 

Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead updated the delegates on progress made so far on CAP reform and what Scotland was continuing to push for.

 

They then considered a range of scenarios, prepared by the James Hutton Institute, about what the move to area-based payments in Scotland could look like. The audience were then invited to further consider the issues raised and email their preferred options to the CAP team.

 

Page updated: Wednesday, May 15, 2013