Agriculture and Fisheries Council
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council (Engl. Agriculture and Fisheries Council ) is a formation of the Council of the European Union , which the Commissioner for Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers of the Member States belong. This Council formation meets once a month in Brussels or Luxembourg ; its meetings are prepared by the Special Committee on Agriculture . Members of the European Commission who are responsible for agriculture and rural development , fisheries and maritime affairs and consumer protection can also take part in the meetings. However, you have no voting rights.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council is mainly concerned with regulating markets, organizing production and determining the resources available, improving horizontal agricultural structures and rural development.
Both the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) have been reformed in recent years. For the CAP, this concerns the single farm payment, which is now used as a budgetary instrument. Animal breeding, field crops and milk are decoupled from production and receipt of the premium is linked to compliance with certain criteria as well as environmental friendliness and species-appropriate animal husbandry.
The Council also decides on the budget for the financing of the actions concerned in this policy area. Until the Lisbon Treaty came into force at the end of 2009, he was solely responsible for this, and since then the European Parliament has had an equal say in budgetary issues .
Jurisdiction and criticism
The areas of responsibility of the committee are defined in a self-description as:
- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP),
- Internal market regulations,
- Forestry ,
- organic farming ,
- Quality assurance and safety of food and feed
- and harmonization of the regulations for veterinary medicine , plant protection , animal feed , seeds and plant protection products .
The Council has been criticized on several occasions for taking decisions that do not fall within its remit.
- the eavesdropping,
- the patentability of computer-implemented inventions and more recently
- the anti-piracy agreement ACTA .
- the copyright reform "upload filter" of the European Union .
Web links
- Official website of the "Council for Agriculture and Fisheries" .
- EU de-briefings of the responsible federal ministries on the results of the Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (Network European Movement Germany )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3_fo/showPage.asp?id=414&lang=de&mode=g
- ^ "Agriculture and Fisheries" Council on the pages of the Council of the European Union.
- ↑ Erich Moechel: Global EU FBI surveillance system? ( Memento of February 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), October 19, 1998. Article on Telepolis. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
- ↑ Erich Moechel: The ETSI dossiers , March 26, 2001. Article on Telepolis. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
- ↑ Chaotic EU legislation on software patents . Article in the Rhein-Zeitung on January 21, 2005. Retrieved on February 12, 2012.
- ↑ EU Council approves ACTA anti-piracy agreement . Article on Heise. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
- ^ Council press release of December 15 and 16, 2011
- ↑ heise online: EU copyright reform finally decided: EU Council allows upload filters to pass. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ↑ EU copyright reform: EU Council votes - dispute over upload filters goes into the last round. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
