European Union’s Agriculture as Part of the Solution to Global Challenges

This paper focuses on proposals for changes in the post-2013 CAP support for agriculture related to the implementation of a uniform model of area payments as a core support instrument and additionally on the implementation of technical and procedural simplifications cocerning: a new measure to support small farmers, liquidation of the early retirement scheme and establishment of a restructuring premium instead, agri-environmental payments, establishment of agricultural risk management institutions which would have the role of a safety net.