Agenda 2000 was an action programme of the European Union whose main objectives were to reform the

Common Agricultural Policy The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes. It was introduced in 1962 and has since then undergone several changes to reduce the ...

and

Regional policy Regional policy is the sum of a series of policies formulated according to regional differences to coordinate regional relations and regional macro operation mechanism, which affects regional development at the macro level. It includes regional ec ...

, and establish a new financial framework for the years 2000–06 with a view to the then upcoming Eastern

Enlargement of the European Union The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union. To join the EU, a state needs to fulfil economic and political conditions called the Copenhagen criteria ...

. Its stated goals were: # "to update the European Model of Agriculture" # "to honour priorities while enjoying only very modest increases in budget income until 2006"

External links

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Full Text of the original Commission Proposal (1997)
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