At their next meeting on Oct. 21, the EU agriculture ministers want to unanimously adopt a declaration on how they envisage the next reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Today, the preparatory body, the Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA), is negotiating this for the second time. A current draft of the declaration, which is available to Table.Briefings, provides for a commitment to the CAP as a separate item in the EU budget. It is the appropriate instrument for the distribution of agricultural subsidies, it says.