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This paper analyses to what extent the June 2003 CAP reform is compatible with the WTO framework agreement concluded this summer in Geneva. It successively considers the three dossiers of domestic support, export competition and market access.

Within the framework of the Common agricultural policy (CAP) reform of June 2003, this article deals with the direct supports granted to the French farms specialised in field crops. Some simulations are applied on the individual data of the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Farms are distributed according various technical systems. Several aspects are highlighted: the direct payments play a very important role in the farm income; the amount of the future single payment being given on the basis of the individual reference acquired in 2000-2002, great dimension units should preserve high amounts of direct supports; applying the principle of regionalization, without transitional period, but with an integral mutualisation (i.e. the single payment per hectare is, in the same area, common to all farmers), would induce a fall of the income of the farms specialized in field crops. This fall would be more important in the units located in diversified areas (beef, sheep or extensive dairy production).