The CAP 2000 wine project, the role of interprofessions and the liberalization of trade.

Summary This working paper is a critical analysis of the CAP 2000 wine project of the Directorate General for Agriculture. It aims to replace the twenty-three regulations in force by a single regulation, in order to promote a competitive wine sector with a stable structural supply-demand balance for intra-Community markets, likely to guarantee a better income for producers and an improvement in quality for consumers. The first part focuses on certain sensitive points of the proposed reform of the Common Market Organization (CMO) for wine and summarizes the issues that have not been sufficiently explored. The second part details the crucial point dealing with the legitimacy of the interprofessions on the economic level.