On 22 September 1969, at the opening of the Conference of German agricultural unions in Dortmund, Helmut Schmalz, Chairman of the free trade union of agricultural workers, comments on the provisions of the Mansholt Plan and emphasises the implications of the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).
On 20 June 1969, the Federation of German Rural Youth states its position on the draft reform of the common agricultural policy and highlights the weaknesses in the Mansholt Plan.
On 27 November 1969, the Dutch daily newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant analyses the differences between the 1970 plan for reforming the common agricultural policy (CAP) and the 1958 plan, both devised by Sicco Mansholt.
On 4 July 1969, Louis George Rabot, Director-General of Agriculture at the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) submits a note to Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the CEC, in which he speculates on the consequences of certain commercial agreements concluded by the Member States with state-trading countries.
In 1969, the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture drafts a note which analyses in detail all the provisions included in the Mansholt Plan for the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).
On 6 June 1969, the German agricultural magazine Die Landtechnische Zeitschrift publishes an article analysing the impact of the Mansholt Plan on rural life.
On 29 March 1971, Rinse Zijlstra, Chairman of the Dutch Union of Protestant Agricultural Workers and Market Gardeners, expresses concern at the outbreaks of violence that occurred during the agricultural demonstration in Brussels and highlights the efforts made by the European authorities to establish a common agricultural policy.
On 23 September 1969, during the Conference of German agricultural unions in Dortmund, the West German Minister for Agriculture, Hermann Höcherl, gives a speech on the reform of the common agricultural policy and outlines the changes occurring across rural Germany.
On 30 March 1953, after the European Conference on the Organisation of Agricultural Markets held in Paris, Jacob Jan van der Lee, Head of the International Organisations Department in the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, emphasises the importance of agricultural integration in Europe.
