Editing Common Agricultural Policy (section)

===Production and market sectors covered by the CAP===
The common agricultural policy price intervention covers only certain agricultural products:
* cereal, rice, [[potatoes]] and flour
* [[cooking oil]]
* [[energy crops]], [[vegetable oil fuel]], [[biodiesel]], [[bioethanol]]
* animal [[Fodder|feed stuffs]] and dried [[fodder]]
* milk and [[dairy products|milk products]] (such as [[condensed milk]], [[powder milk]], butter, cheese, [[whey]], [[buttermilk]], [[cream]], [[yoghurt]], [[kefir]])
* grapes, wine, vinegar, [[cider]]
* [[honey]]
* beef and [[veal]], [[poultry meat]] and [[egg (food)|eggs]], [[pork|pig meat]], [[Lamb (food)|sheep]] / [[Lamb and mutton|lamb meat]] and [[goat meat]]
* sugar
* fruit and vegetables (including [[fungiculture|cultivated mushrooms]])
* cotton
* [[pea]]s, [[chickpea]], [[lentil]], field [[beans]], [[soybean]]
* [[Lupinus angustifolius|sweet lupins]]
* [[olives]]
* [[flax|flax seeds]]
* [[Flax#Flax fibers|flax fibers]]
* [[silkworm]]s
* [[hemp]]
* tobacco
* [[hops]]
* [[seeds]]
* animal [[semen]], [[egg cell]]s and [[embryo]]s
* flowers and [[plants|live plants]]

Fish, [[molluscs]] and [[crustaceans]] are covered by the separate [[Common Fisheries Policy]].

The coverage of products in the external trade regime is more extensive than the coverage of the CAP regime. This is to limit competition between EU products and alternative external goods (for example, lychee juice could potentially compete with orange juice).{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}}