Dr. Humberto Delgado Rosa:

It has been said previously that the CAP has evolved. When it started, not that long after the Second World War, the overriding need was to ensure more food production. Societal needs and expectations with regard to agriculture have been evolving. CAP money is taxpayers' money. Taxpayers expect the funding of agriculture to provide for landscape, nature and biodiversity along with healthy food. The evolution of the CAP has been very noticeable over several iterations. We now have specific CAP objectives on biodiversity, climate and soil. These are rather different from what was in the first version of the CAP. This is the explanation as such. The money for this is there. It is CAP money. It is being tilted towards the adoption of measures that deliver production, and even more resilient production, while, given the situation with the environment in the EU and the world, avoiding any harmful subsidy that would pay for production-----