Editing Common Agricultural Policy (section)

====Agenda 2000 (1999)====
The '[[Agenda 2000]]'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/enlargement/2004_and_2007_enlargement/l60001_en.htm |title=Agenda 2000: for a stronger and wider Union |publisher=Europa.eu |date=30 May 2013 |access-date=12 March 2014}}</ref> reforms divided the CAP into two 'Pillars': production support and rural development. Several rural development measures were introduced including [[Agricultural diversification|diversification]], setting up producer groups and support for young farmers. Agri-environment schemes became compulsory for every Member State.<ref>Dinan 2005: 367</ref> The market support prices for cereals, milk and milk products and beef and veal were step-wise reduced while direct coupled payments to farmers were increased. Payments for major arable crops as cereals and [[Vegetable oil|oil-seeds]] were harmonized.<ref>{{cite web |work=EU-Commission, Directorate-General for Agriculture |url=http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/publi/review99/08_09_en.pdf |title=Agenda 2000 – A CAP for the future}}</ref>

The introduction of the euro in 1999 also ended the use of green exchange rates such as the [[green pound]].<ref>{{CELEX|31998R2799|text=Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the euro}}</ref>