In January 1962, Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the European Commission with special responsibility for agricultural policy, welcomes the decision taken by the Council of Ministers to move directly to the second stage of the European Customs Union and to introduce a common agricultural policy (CAP).

Meeting of the Commission of the European Communities under the presidency of Sicco Mansholt, in office from 22 March 1972 to 5 January 1973.

In March 1969, the Christian Social Union (CSU), the German conservative party, publishes a pamphlet criticising the Mansholt Plan on the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

On 12 June 1969, the German Federal Government analyses the provisions of the draft reform of the common agricultural policy and highlights its weaknesses.

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.

In May 1969, the Italian Association for the Council of European Municipalities comments on the memorandum on the reform of the common agricultural policy submitted by the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Sicco Mansholt.

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.