As it stands, the legislative proposal on the future CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) is of concern to the European Committee of the Regions rapporteur Guillaume Cros (FR/Verts), as it tends to marginalise – or even undermine – the role and autonomy of the European regions in managing this EU policy, by simply charging them with implementing measures established at national level.

Trgovinski spori med EU in ZDA so prizadeli evropske regionalne agroživilske proizvode. Mesta in regije EU so na plenarnem zasedanju izrazili globoko zaskrbljenost, ker ameriške tarife škodijo proizvodnim sektorjem, lokalnim gospodarstvom in velikemu številu družinskih podjetij. Na pobudo španske delegacije bo Evropski odbor regij (OR) več pozivov o trgovinskih sporazumih vključil v mnenje, ki ga bo sprejel maja 2020. V odziv na pomoč, ki jo je EU dala Airbusu, so ZDA 18. oktobra 2019 uvedle tarife v vrednosti 6,9 milijarde EUR, ki veljajo za več kot 1 400 proizvodov.

​At a hearing held at the European Parliament on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Guillaume Cros (FR/PES), Vice-President of the Occitan Region and European Committee of the Regions rapporteur on the CAP, pointed out that according to the Court of Auditors report of 20 November, environmental aspects are not given sufficient weight among the many challenges to the future CAP that have been identified. The Committee of the Regions' recommendations also match the aims of the Green Deal announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Poročevalec Evropskega odbora regij (OR) o reformi skupne kmetijske politike je čestital aktivistom za pravice živali za več kot milijon podpisov, ki so jih zbrali v podporo evropski državljanski pobudi End the Cage Age (Končajmo rejo živali v kletkah).