ESTIMO E POLITICA AGRICOLA EUROPEA
Module Common Agricultural and Fisheries policies

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Biagio PECORINO

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course introduces the common agricultural and fisheries policies highlighting their roots in the European integration project. The evolution of these policies is presented from an analytical perspective that allows the assessment of their objectives, instruments and operating procedures with reference to both the market regulation of agricultural and fishery products and to the support for rural and coastal development. Furthmore, it aims to provide students with institutional and regulatory knowledge on common agricultural and fisheries policies to enable them to understand the programming process and the governance of those EU policies.

Course Structure

The methods of teaching are different and include lectures, analysis of the elemnets of proposal of investment, seminars, study visit, reports by the students. Those methods contribute to the acquisition of knowledge and ability to carry out analyzes and communicate what has been learned.

As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline. 
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.

 

Detailed Course Content

1. The European integration process

The institutional framework of the EU. The enlargement process and creation of the eurozone. The decision-making process. Legal acts european law.

2. Development of the CAP

The CAP in its first phase. The markets and prices policy and the structural agricultural policy. The revision process of the common agricultural Policy in the 80s and the new objectives. The CAP reforms in the '90s: from Mac Sharry to Agenda 2000. The Fischler Reform.

3. The CAP 2014-2020

The structure and objectives of the revised CAP. The direct payments regime. Voluntary and mandatory payments. Convergence of direct payments. The active farmer. The single common market organisation. Modulation. National implementation.

4.The second pillar of the CAP

Objectives, fields of intervention and instruments of rural development policy. Institutional structure. Subsidiarity and governance. Risk management.

5. The transiction period 2021-22 e the new policy 2023-27

6. The Common Fishery Policy

The origins and evolution of CFP. The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund. Fisheries resources. The aquaculture sector. Small-scale fisheries. The Integrated Maritime Policy.

Textbook Information

1. Commissione europea, Le politiche dell’Unione europea Funzionamento dell’UE, Lussemburgo 2014.

2. Commissione europea, La politica agricola comune dell’Unione europea, Lussemburgo, 2017

3. Frascarelli A., La politica dei mercati agricoli dell’UE per il periodo 2014-2020: un’analisi degli strumenti, Agriregionieuropa, anno 12 n°46, 2016

4. Albani C., Bosco D., Ansovini G., De Filippis F., Frascarelli A., Leporati S. (a cura di), LA PAC 2014-2020, Coldiretti, 2015.

5. Mantino F., La riforma delle politiche di sviluppo rurale 2014-2020, Agriregionieuropa anno 9 n°35, Dic 2013.

6. Commissione europea, Panoramica della Politica di sviluppo rurale 2014.

7. Commissione europea, Salvaguardare il futuro dei nostri mari e generare nuova prosperità, Le politiche dell’Unione europea, Lussemburgo.

8. Parlamento europeo, Schede sulla politica comune della pesca. Note sintetiche sull'Unione europea – 2016

9. MIPAAF, Piano di azione per lo sviluppo, la competitività e la sostenibilità della pesca artigianale, Allegato 7 del programma operativo FEAMP, 2015