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