Eu Common Agricultural Policy: Organizational Features, Key Priorities

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to summarize the results of a study aimed at identifying those features of the organization of the Unified Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP), which, firstly, are of interest for the development of a similar policy for supporting rural areas in the Russian Federation, and secondly, are consistent with the domestic conditions of the rural economy, rural traditions, vectors of sustainable development, specified by society and the state. The research base obtained during the study of legislative documents of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, Eurostat statistical information, reporting materials of the European Fund for Rural Development, made it possible (through the use of a discursive analysis method) to offer the scientific community a number of theoretical generalizations and applied recommendations that are of scientific and practical importance for the incorporation of certain aspects of international experience into the domestic institutional environment.