Johan Swinnen; Pavel Ciaian; d’Artis Kancs - Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) - 2008
The background to this study is the establishment of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS), providing decoupled support to farmers, which was the central element of the 2003 CAP reform. The Member States of the EU-15 had to implement the SPS at the latest by 2007. The Member States had some...