Agenda 2000: Review of the CAP and enlargement consequences

The Council listened to a presentation from Commissioner FISCHLER on the conclusions of the European Conference on Rural Development, which was held in Cork on 7-9 November 1996. The Commissioner had indicated that he was in a position to share these conclusions and had signalled his intention to present them to other Community institutions (Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions) as well as to the Commission itself. In the course of the debate certain delegations called for the conclusions to be examined in much more detail. The President indicated that he intended incorporating these conclusions into the preparatory work for the next European Council in Dublin.