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180 European Health Forum Gastein 2001 agriculture to fulfil its multi-functional role. If not the credibility of the WTO will be seriously eroded. The rules concerning market access must ensure that the concerns of European consumers are met and that there is fair competition between EU and imported products. Let me draw your attention also to one aspect which is seen quite controversial by the public. The agricultural budget: The Common Agricultural Policy has been the first really harmonised common policy at European level and is still mainly financed by the European budget. Imagine a Brussels financed pension or public health system! The current European agricultural budget would be a very small part of this total budget. Concerning the famous 50 percent discussion: If you count all 15 national budgets and the European budget together the expenditure for agriculture is less than 2 percent of all expenditures! Europe has to have the means of its ambitions. And its ambitions eventually have to be translated in policies. Farmers (and co-operatives) are determined to meet EU regulations concerning food safety, quality and environmental protection, sustainable production methods and animal welfare but it must be ensured that this is compensated either via the market or through the budget so that they do not lose markets to competitors. In this respect 3 items for the further development of the CAP are important: 1. food safety and animal welfare rules applied to domestic production must also be applied to imports; 2. it must be possible to apply the precautionary principle in the case of legitimate concerns about food and environmental safety when scientific assessment is inconclusive or incomplete. Therefore, the precautionary principle should be clarified at the next WTO round; 3. Farmers' (and co-operatives') positive contribution to the environment, rural development as well as the maintenance, of a countryside and landscape must be recognised as a public good which can be remunerated under WTO – green box. European level: European supermarkets set standards for their suppliers in response to growing consumer demand for environmentally sustainable and pesticide free products Nigel Garbutt Abstract and speech not available. International Forum Gastein, Tauernplatz 1, A-5630 Bad Hofgastein Tel.: +43 (6432) 7110-70, Fax: Ext. 71, e-mail: info@ehfg.org, website: www.ehfg.org
Forum IV: Building a healthy Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Summary Report of Forum IV Mike Rayner In reporting back on Parallel Forum IV: ‘Building a healthy Common Agriculture Policy’ I will firstly summarise the most important issues discussed at the Forum, secondly I will mention some controversies that arose and finally summarise the four recommendations that were agreed. Issues Firstly the Forum discussed, in some detail, what the health objectives of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) should be. The issue of ‘food safety’ has generally been the focus of thinking about incorporating health objectives into European food and agriculture policy and the Forum agreed that one objective of the CAP must be to ensure that food is free from microbiological and chemical contamination. However it was noted that diet-related chronic disease - particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer - are a larger cause of mortality and morbidity than acute food-borne diseases. The Forum therefore considered that those setting health objectives for the CAP needed to consider how the CAP could help to reduce the burden of chronic diet-related diseases as well as acute food-borne diseases. The Forum noted that the European Commission had recently funded the Eurodiet Project to develop dietary goals for European populations which if achieved would help to reduce the burden of diet-related diseases. The Eurodiet Project had taken two years and involved over 200 experts from all over Europe. The report of the project had just been published 38 . Eurodiet sets out 17 population dietary goals which if achieved would significantly improve the health of the European population. A priority goal is for an increase in consumption of fruit and vegetables. The Forum noted that the CAP has other effects upon health other than upon food consumption – through its effects on the environment, employment, etc. These effects are complex but nevertheless need to be considered when setting health objectives. The Forum noted that, under the CAP, tobacco farmers are paid subsidies for growing tobacco. The subsidised tobacco is for export and therefore its consumption does not affect the health of Europeans, but its consumption is highly damaging to the health of people living in the countries to which it is exported. The Forum noted that the European Commission had agreed to the phasing out of subsidies for tobacco farmers. The second issue discussed by the Forum was the relationship between health and other objectives – particularly environmental objectives. The Forum noted that it is increasingly recognised that what is good for human health is generally good for the environment. The First Food and Nutrition Action Plan for the World Health Organisation European Region – agreed at the WHO Regional Assembly in September 2000 – proposes that there should be three strands or pillars to food and nutrition policy: food safety, nutrition and sustainable production. 38 Eurodiet Project (2001) Eurodiet Reports and Proceedings. Eds A G Kafatos and C A Codrington. Public Health Nutrition 4.2(1) 325-336. International Forum Gastein, Tauernplatz 1, A-5630 Bad Hofgastein Tel.: +43 (6432) 7110-70, Fax: Ext. 71, e-mail: info@ehfg.org, website: www.ehfg.org 181
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