A justification of using the good governance rule in the policy of less favoured areas (LFAs) development was presented. Using typology of farming systems for increasing efficiency of public governance in the LFAs development was discussed. This approach allows a flexible implementation of...

The article deals with the issues of direct farm payments scheme aimed at an equalization of their level between Polish producers and those in the EU-12 or EU-15 countries. Such politically based view has been recently propagated in Poland. An analytical, theoretical and empirical approach is...

The economic theory links the growth of production factors remuneration with the productivity improvement. In the case of contemporary European agriculture, among the most important income creators are money transfers, namely direct payments. These transfers are part of the agricultural and...

The article aims to present the system of direct agricultural payments in Poland in the context of solutions applied in the European Union. The work describes briefly the evolution of direct payments in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy, presents basic information about the models of...

Considerations are presented over the cross-compliance principle influence for the agricultural farms competitiveness in the European Union, particularly with regard to the Polish position. Their meaning is anlysed and the existing weaknesses are indicated, as well as the beneficial...

This paper presents the possibility of changes in the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. Attention was drawn to the European Commission's proposals which result from discussions with representatives of various disciplines and backgrounds as well as the results of studies of other...

The paper deals with the future of direct payments system in the EU agriculture. Different scenarios of the current system adjustments, as proposed by the European Commission, are presented. Four possible scenarios are being discussed: An ‘EU flat rate’, a pragmatic approach, the use of...

Farm incomes in Poland have increased since the Polish integration with the European Union. The average monthly available income per household was in 2008 lower than income only of the self-employed entrepreneurs. A significant impact on this situation have the agricultural direct payments which...

The Lisbon Treaty introduced a new category of legislative acts – delegated acts. The process of delegating of legal acts was reviewed while discussing the package of basic regulations that implements Common Agricultural Policy after 2014 The package includes: direct payments, development of...

Direct payments are one of the basic forms of support for agricultural income, which is used by 72-76% authorized farm households. Relation of number of applications to number of registered producers amounts to 80-85%. There is still a large number of farm households possessing above 1 ha of...