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HORMONES, HEIFERS AND HIGH POLITICS – BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Author(s) -
PETERSON JOHN
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1989.tb00741.x
Subject(s) - negotiation , agriculture , liberalization , politics , agricultural biotechnology , international trade , common agricultural policy , agricultural policy , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , business , economic policy , political science , european union , market economy , biology , law , ecology
The recent ec ban on imports of hormone‐treated beef and the central place of agricultural régime liberalization in the Uruguay round of GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs) negotiations have combined to make agricultural reform a matter of ‘high politics’ in international trade. But debates on medium‐term reform of the Common Agricultural Policy fail to consider the impact of future developments in biotechnology, which threaten to overwhelm the ec 's ability to cope with agricultural surplus. Meanwhile, the ec has begun to accelerate its efforts to promote Europe's competitiveness in global biotechnology markets through new collaborative research programmes. The clash of interests between the ec 's agricultural and technology policy communities has produced contradictory policies and new obstacles toward the critical goal of reforming the cap . The ec 's efforts to promote biotechnology must be reconciled with biotechnology's future impacts on European agriculture through more rigorous technology assessment and reform of agricultural policy‐making mechanisms.