The WTO: no longer relevant for CAP reform?

Swinbank, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2526-2026 (2015) The WTO: no longer relevant for CAP reform? In: Swinnen, J. (ed.) The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy: An Imperfect Storm. Rowman & Littlefield International, London, pp. 193-213. ISBN 9781783484843

Abstract/Summary

The chapter explores the role the World Trade Organization (WTO) played or, rather, did not play in the 2013 ‘recalibration’ of the CAP. It is organised as follows: first, a brief review of policy changes from 1992 to 2008 and their (apparent) conformability with evolving WTO rules; second, a re-examination of the relevance of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) in the mid-2010s; and, third, a short account of how WTO constraints were addressed by the European Commission and the European Parliament in the 2013 CAP reform debate.