ABSTRACT
To give effect to the aspects of the Treaty intended to help farmers, the Community has relied on price policy, structural policy and to a small degree aids to producer marketing organisations. Potentially a farmers’ marketing organisation is in a strong position. Since 1958 farmers’ incomes in general seem to have risen within the Community. For the agricultural exporting members, however, the Common Agricultural Policy has probably sustained higher prices and allowed more farmers to continue in business than national governments would have been willing to finance. The claims of the policy to have improved farmers’ incomes and stabilised their markets have at least some evidence to support them. The price orientation of the policy which leads to its geographic inequity also leads to inequity between small and large farmers. Agricultural policy exists for the Community as a whole.
