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The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The DG AGRI is responsible for the European Union policy area of agriculture and rural development. The work of the DG AGRI is closely linked with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The Director-General (since April 2020) is Wolfgang Burtscher, [1] with Michael Scannell serving as Deputy DG. The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development in the von der Leyen Commission is Janusz Wojciechowski, who took office in December 2019. Its address is 130 Rue de la Loi, Brussels.
In 2020 it had 851 employees. [2]
The mission statement of DG Agri is closely linked to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The DG's current concrete concerns include [1]:
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The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has a staff of about 1000 people.
The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development have been
The DG AGRI encompasses 12 Directorates, all headquartered in Brussels: