DIRECTORAte-GenerAL FOR INTERNAL POLICIES POLICY DEPARTMENT DIRECTORAte-GenerAL FOR INTERNAL POLICIES STRUCTURAL AND COHESION POLICIES B POLICY DEPARTMENT STRUCTURAL AND COHESION POLICIES B Role The Policy Departments are research units that provide specialised advice to committees, inter-parliamentary delegations and other parliamentary bodies. Publications Policy Areas Agriculture and Rural Development Catalogue Culture and Education Fisheries Regional Development Transport and Tourism Agriculture and Rural Development Documents Culture and Education Visit the European Parliament website: http://www.europarl.europa.eu Fisheries Regional Development Publications Transport and Tourism Catalogue PE_CoverCatalogue_2008.2470 1 2/13/09 4:49:43 PM j DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR INTERNAL POLICIES POLICY DEPARTMENT B STRUCTURAL AND COHESION POLICIES PUBLICATIONS CATALOGUE PE 405.401 EN RESPONSIBLE ADMINISTRATOR Irina Popescu Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies European Parliament E-mail: [email protected] EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE Virginija Kelmelytė Bartosz Ptasznik LINGUISTIC VERSIONS This publication is available in English. ABOUT THE EDITOR To contact the Policy Department or to subscribe to its monthly newsletter please write to: [email protected] Manuscript completed in May 2012. Brussels, © European Parliament, 2012. This document is available on the Internet at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/studies DISCLAIMER The opinions expressed in this document are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the European Parliament. Reproduction and translation for non-commercial purposes are authorized, provided the source is acknowledged and the publisher is given prior notice and sent a copy. Publications Catalogue ___________________________________________________________________________________________ FOREWORD Effective Parliamentary work relies on specialised, objective, high-quality and up-to-date information. To this end, five units responsible for research, analysis and policy advice, known as 'Policy Departments' were created. Their activities cover all areas of competence of the European Parliament. They produce high level independent advice, based on research carried out either in-house or by external researchers. Policy Departments deliver a wide range of documents, comprising texts as diverse as in- depth analyses of complex legislative issues, comparative studies, and short background notes. These tools aim to support the work of the parliamentary bodies. They serve a variety of purposes: they can feed directly into the legislative work of a specific committee or serve as a briefing for delegations of Members. Apart from a few confidential documents, all texts produced by the Policy Departments are published on the Parliament's website for the benefit of all Members and the wider public. In order to inform the wider public about its publications, Directorate B Structural and Cohesion Policies has put together a catalogue of research carried out by the Policy Department affiliated to the Directorate. The work of this Policy Department covers five policy areas corresponding to five parliamentary committees: Agriculture and Rural Development; Culture and Education; Fisheries; Regional Development; and Transport and Tourism. The catalogue provides an overview of recent publications (2004-2010) in the five policy areas. Short summaries describe the content of each document. Abbreviations inform the reader about the range of available language versions. The list of publications is provided hereafter. The reader is invited to either consult them online or request hard copies for further reading. The full-text versions of all documents are available in the Parliament's study database at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/studies Ismael Olivares Martinez Director Directorate B: Structural and Cohesion Policies Directorate General for Internal Policies of the Union iii Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies ___________________________________________________________________________________________ iv Publications Catalogue ___________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD III LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS VII AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT - AGRI 1 CULTURE AND EDUCATION - CULT 33 FISHERIES - PECH 53 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT - REGI 79 TRANSPORT AND TOURISM - TRAN 97 HORIZONTAL ISSUES 117 v Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies ___________________________________________________________________________________________ vi Publications Catalogue ___________________________________________________________________________________________ LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS BG Български CS Čeština DA Dansk DE Deutsch EL Ελληνικά EN English ES Español ET Eesti keel FI Suomi FR Français HU Magyar IT Italiano LT Lietuvių kalba LV Latviešu valoda MT Malti NL Nederlands PL Polski PT Português RO Română SK Sloven čina SL Slovenščina SV Svenska vii Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies ___________________________________________________________________________________________ viii Publications Catalogue ___________________________________________________________________________________________ AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT - AGRI The AGRI Committee is responsible for: 1. The operation and development of the common agricultural policy; 2. Rural development, including the activities of the relevant financial instruments; 3. Legislation on: a. veterinary and plant-health matters, animal feeding stuffs provided such measures are not intended to protect against risks to human health, b. animal husbandry and welfare; 4. The improvement of the quality of agricultural products; 5. Supplies of agricultural raw materials; 6. The Community Plant Variety Office; 7. Forestry. Rural development and territorial cohesion in the new CAP Jan Douwe VAN DER PLOEG, University of Wageningen, NL This note examines the role of rural development in the CAP after 2013. It pays special attention to the way rural development might help to address the adverse effects of the economic crisis on rural areas. The note also discusses the possibilities of overcoming problems that threaten the legitimacy of rural development policy. It is argued that the attention given to competitiveness and innovation as generic concepts threatens to distort rural development in the 2014-2020 period. This will be especially detrimental for territorial integration. Note: EN February 2012 PE 474.529 46 pages New Direct Payments Scheme: targeting and redistribution in the future CAP Alan Swinbank, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK The Commission has proposed that a revised version of the present regime should be rolled forward into the post-2013 CAP. There would be a limited redistribution of funds between Member States. Thirty per cent of the budget would be allocated to a new greening component, which would be problematic in the WTO. Non-active farmers would not qualify for aid; and payments would be capped. Special schemes would be introduced for small farmers, for young new entrants, and for disadvantaged regions. Note: EN February 2012 PE 474.528 74 pages 1 Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies ___________________________________________________________________________________________ The CAP in the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014/2020 Felice Adinolfi, Jonathan Little, Albert Massot, Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies, European Parliament This is the third working paper written by Policy Department B on Common Agricultural Policy Reform. The purpose of this document is to provide an analysis of the Commission’s Communication on “A Budget for Europe 2020”, with the aim of facilitating the legislative work of the MEPs relating to the next reform of the CAP. After a description of the historical evolution of the European budget and spending on the Common Agricultural Policy, the paper explores the new proposed Multiannual Financial Framework for the 2014–2020 period, with particular reference to the CAP budget and its various components. Note: October 2011 PE 460.067 56 pages Available in: DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, PL, PT The Agriculture of the Canary Islands Albert Massot, Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies, European Parliament This note has been drafted as a supporting document for the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development in its mission to the Canary Islands in August 2011. It comprises: 1) an introduction presenting the major physical data and certain historical references; 2) a special section on the political and economic framework of the Islands; and 3) a third section which examines agriculture in the Canary Islands in the framework of the European Union, its major sources of funding and the risk factors affecting its main products (involving the impact of the WTO banana panel and renewal of the agricultural protocol to the Association Agreement with Morocco in particular). Note: June 2011 PE 460.050 43 pages Available in: DE, EL, EN, ES, IT, PL, PT, RO What Tools for the European Agricultural Policy to Encourage the Provision of Public Goods? Kaley Hart, David Baldock, IEEP, Peter Weingarten, Bernhard Osterburg, vTI, Andrea Povellato, Francesco Vanni, INEA, Corrado Pirzio-Biroli, Alison Boyes, RISE Foundation Agriculture plays an important role in the provision of a wide range