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4.3 Using COSMIC FFP for Sizing, Estimating,

and Planning in an ERP Environment

Frank Vogelezang

4.3.1 Introduction: Changing Environments

4.3.1.1 Political Change

In early 2003 the Commission of the European Communities proposed a reform of

the common agricultural policy (COM 2003). e main aims of this reform were

to cut the link between production and direct payments (decoupling), to make

those payments conditional on environmental, food safety, animal welfare, health,

and occupational safety standards (cross-compliance), and to increase EU support

for rural development by a modulation of direct payments (from which small farm-

ers would be e ...