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===Agriculture and fisheries===
{{Main
 | Common Agricultural Policy
 | Common Fisheries Policy
}}
{{See also
 | European Fisheries Control Agency
 | European Food Safety Authority
}}

[[File:European Union Exclusive Economic Zones.PNG|thumb|upright=1|The EU's [[exclusive economic zone]] (EEZ). At 25&nbsp;million square kilometres, it is the largest in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Summaries of EU legislation |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/browse/summaries.html |access-date=21 December 2022 |website=EUR-Lex |language=en}}</ref>]]

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The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the [[agricultural policy]] of the European Union. It implements a system of [[agricultural subsidies]] and other programmes. It was introduced in 1962 and has since then undergone several changes to reduce the EEC budget cost (from 73% in 1985 to 37% in 2017) and consider rural development in its aims. It has, however, been criticised on the grounds of its cost and its environmental and humanitarian effects.

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Likewise, the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the [[fisheries]] policy of the European Union. It sets quotas for which member states are allowed to catch each type of fish, as well as encouraging the [[fishing industry]] by various market interventions and [[fishing subsidies]]. It was introduced in 2009 with the Treaty of Lisbon, which formally enshrined fisheries conservation policy as one of the handful of "exclusive competences" reserved for the European Union.