ABSTRACT
In 1997, the EU Agricultural Council adopted a set of conclusions in which it developed the basics of the concept of the European Model of Agriculture. As part of the European Strategy for Sustainable Development based on the decisions of the European Council in Göteborg (June 2001), environmental dimensions were added to the social and economic ones. In the same year, the Agricultural Council integrated environmental and sustainable development as political terms and targets into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and it adopted the European Model of Agriculture and particularly the concept of the multifunctionality of agriculture as a core basis of European farming policy.
