Special Eurobarometer 276: Europeans, Agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy

This survey follows on from other surveys conducted over a long period, most recently that carried out in 2005 which paid particular attention to the CAP. The current survey, as before, was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social, interviewing 24732 citizens in the 25 Member States and Bulgaria and Romania which - at the time of the survey - had the status of Acceding Countries and have subsequently become full Members. Interviewing was conducted between the 17th of November and the 19th of December, 2006. • The importance of agriculture and the rural areas, according to the public. • Knowledge, information and awareness of agricultural issues and the CAP. • Priorities of agricultural policy, as envisioned by the public and the performance of the CAP on these priorities. • Assessments of recent CAP reforms – in particular ‘cross-compliance’, direct payments and the role of farmers. • Opinion on the current EU agricultural budget and its future level. ● Information on agricultural topics – areas the public would like more information on and sources which are trusted to provide this. #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)