This public lecture is now available as MP3 and PDF (please see the contributions by Tassos Haniotis and David Vanzetti - as a courtesy to the presenters, please contact them for permission to refer to their PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research).

The audio record of the lecture is available here:

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been continuously adapted to respond to the needs and expectations of European society so it is now barely recognisable from the CAP of 20 years ago. The EU is currently in the middle of its process of deciding the next set of reforms of the CAP due to be implemented from 2013 onwards. Dr Haniotis will discuss the reforms to date, the process being followed, the objectives and issues in the current reform process in meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future.

Tassos Haniotis is the Director of the Economic Analysis, Perspectives and Evaluations Directorate in the Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission. He previously held posts as Head of Unit in the Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives and in the Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis units in the same Directorate General, as Member and subsequently Deputy Head of the Cabinet of former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler, and as the Agricultural Counsellor of the European Commission’s Delegation in the United States. He holds Ph.D. (1987) and M.S. (1984) degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia, USA, and a B.A. (1980) in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, in his native Greece. He also spent six months as a visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, Wye College, University of London (1988), where he studied EU-US agricultural trade relations in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations.