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The CAP has undergone several waves of reforms, with the latest reform decided in 2013 and implemented in 2015. Since then, the context in which that reform was forged has shifted significantly. Against this background, as part of its working programme for 2017, the European Commission will take forward work and consult widely on simplification and modernisation of the CAP to maximise its contribution to the Commission's ten priorities and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

While the future of the CAP is already debated in various instances, the process will include a broad consultation and an impact assessment. The goal is to summarise available evidence on the performance of the CAP so far, draw lessons from the implementation of the latest reform, have a structured dialogue, confirm what the current difficulties are, and anticipate needs for modernisation and simplification of the CAP.

This public consultation is part of a wider consultation process and will contribute to the impact assessment. Results of the questionnaire will be published and communicated in a public conference in July 2017.

The questionnaire (open until 2 May 2017) is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/consultations/cap-modernising/2017_en

A broad contribution is in the interest of the success of this consultation.