Nouvelles orientations de la politique agricole francaise: quelques questions a propos du contrat territorial d'exploitation

The new french farm bill of July 1999 aims to improve the multifonctionnality of agriculture and put forward for this purpose a new purview called the Farming Territorial Contract (FTC). The comparison between the objectives announced in the bill, the effective implementation and the noted results of FTC leads to put any basic questions about the trends of french and European agricultural policies.