ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the emerging green dimension of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with special attention ro its relationship with the international agricultural trading regime. It sheds light on the unusual event of international trade liberalisation pressures pushing forward a 'greening' of European sectoral policy. First, the GATT context operated to impose constraints on the continuation of the CAP, and with it the production of negative environmental side-effects. Second, from the GATT negotiations emerged the positive incentive to shift support for farmers to less trade distorting social and environmental measures.
