The (Common) Agricultural Policy (CAP) faces particular demands in the light of recent developments. Most prominent are: reforms of the support system, the consequences of enlargement, agriculture increasingly deals with the production of non-food goods, the changing role of farmers´ society towards landscape conservation and environmental management. Recent developments in the meat sector call for less intensive meat production, and a trend towards more organic and sustainable agriculture is foreseeable. These development trends influencing agricultural production and policy do not affect all regions in the same way. A territorial impact analysis identifies territorial patterns of the regional distribution of the CAP shows that this EU policy do not have cohesion as an aim.