"More Juxtaposition than Encouraging the Development of Agricultural Systems": the Court of Auditors Rejects France's Implementation of the CAP
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The judges deplore, among other things, the low amounts allocated to agro-environmental and climate measures, "even though the environmental issue is decisive in the sector".
The Court of Auditors report highlights the lack of strategy in the use of EUR 9 billion in European funds and calls for a better balance between productivity and environmental issues
The Court of Auditors criticises the implementation of the CAP in France, considering it inadequate to meet the current challenges. It recommends favouring a "productive resilience" reconciling production and the environment, in the face of a system too focused on income support.
In a report published this Wednesday, 2 September, the financial magistrates denounce the French roadmap for European aid, which they consider too "complex and inappropriate for economic and environmental transformations".
In a report, the wise men of Cambon Street are alarmed by the excessive spread of European subsidies, and they call for better targeting of aid, both to the farmers most involved in the ecological transition, or to the transmission of farms.
More than €9 billion of Europeans irrigate French agriculture every year. However, the Court of Auditors considers the French CAP plan too complex, too little focused on investment and insufficiently armed to reconcile production, competitiveness and environmental transition.
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