The minister of agriculture and food and his German counterpart Julia Klöckner issue a joint declaration on the future CAP

On Monday 16th, the minister of agriculture and food, and his German counterpart Julia Klöckner, federal minister of food and agriculture, issued a joint declaration on the future CAP, as presented to European agriculture ministers.

As they had promised at their meeting on 25th June this year, the German and French ministers have worked on a joint contribution to the preparation of the new CAP.

In this declaration the two ministers wished to recall their high expectations of the future CAP, in particular its ability to respond to economic, environmental and climate challenges, and more generally to society's growing demands for safer, more sustainable food from agriculture.

To this end, the two ministers defend keeping the CAP budget at its current level. They are pleased that their joint declaration therefore reinforces the commitment by 20 member states to defend maintaining the CAP budget as set down in the memorandum on the CAP of 31st May 2018. This so-called Madrid memorandum was presented by Stéphane Travert at the European agriculture ministers' meeting last June in Luxembourg.

In their declaration, the minister and Julia Klockner also underlined the importance of the following points:

• raised environmental ambitions;
• improved targeting of direct subsidies;
• strengthened tools for dealing with risks and crises and more generally tools for the CAP to support structuring of different sectors and building up their value.

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