This contrasts with our experience in the past, where there has been rather a problem of too much supply and too low prices, and explains the introduction of supply control measures like quotas and set aside and the general thrust for Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, since 1992, to strengthening competitiveness and increasing market orientation by moving away from a policy of price and production support to direct producer support.

The de-coupling of direct producer support and the introduction of the single payment scheme are essential elements in the process of reforming the common agricultural policy aimed at moving away from a policy of price and production support to a policy of farmer income support.

A rural development policy should accompany and complement the market and income support policies of the common agricultural policy and thus contribute to the achievement of that policy’s objectives as laid down in the Treaty.

Ever since 1992, the common agricultural policy (CAP) has been immersed in a fundamental reform process, aimed at moving away from a policy of price and production support to a more comprehensive policy of farmer income support.

Since 1992, the common agricultural policy (CAP) has been immersed in a fundamental reform process, aimed at moving away from a policy of price and production support to a more comprehensive policy of farmer income support.

I am therefore delighted that, by adopting Mrs Vlasto’s report, the European Parliament is offering, via the measures I have proposed by way of various amendments, to put in place a genuine policy in favour of apprenticeship, consisting of the following: an Erasmus-style exchange programme with a view to encouraging mobility among apprentices; a European statute for apprentices and training exchange grants to enable apprentices to link up with entrepreneurs; a policy to support small enterprises and craftsmen in connection with the European training pathways to which I have attached a lot of importance; and, finally, training networks ...[+++], set up for the purposes of these pathways, to act as lifelong vocational training outlets.