AG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Uruguay Round, Crop Residue

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: AG - Agriculture
• Course: AG 001
• Professor: Armstrong

Document Summary

Increasing the amount of living green cover or dead crop residue cover: From mid-1980 to treaty of lisbon no fewer than five reforms were adopted, not counting the reforms targeting specific commodity markets like sugar, wine or milk. Reforms brought about a significant and lasting change with the introduction of direct payment and the institutionalization of the pillared structure of the cap. The balance between council, commission and the ep was partly restored. The ep"s consultative powers were reasserted in the isoglucose (1979) case which cancelled a decision adopted by the council without having waited for the. The commission began cultivation policy space by loosening its ties to the. Council and insulating the agenda-setting phase from unwanted interference from the mss. Insider elites drove reform with a view to protecting the policy regimes. Controlling the scope and pace of change often in the face of resistance from key policy-community actors.