Agriculture is a very specific sector of production and therefore requires a state intervention, which, however, has several negative effects, which tends to take action to liberalize agricultural trade. An important role in limiting intervention in the agri-food sector played by the Uruguay...

The article concentrates on the analysis of economic mechanisms of export subsidies, which are currently used in agricultural trade. They induce numerous negative effects, leading to an ineffective allocation of resources on an international scale. The agreement reached in the recent years...

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 aim of the paper was to display the agricultural material supply, global production and gross value added in agriculture in the EU countries. In higher developed countries the sectors providing means of production and providing services (sphere I) as well as food and fodder processing...

The last important price changes within the food delivery chain caused a growth of food prices and a higher inflation rate. In the face of those circumstances the activities for improvement of food delivery chain have become very important, since it affects directly all citizens. The analysis...

A growing interest in agrarian issues has been identified on the international level since 2006. The main reason for this change in approach to agriculture is a rise in the world food prices and the limitation of economic and physical access to food (mainly for food net importing countries)....

This paper investigates the possible development of Ukrainian agriculture in terms of creation of a free trade area (FTA) with the European Union. Prospects for export-import relations between Ukraine and the EU as well as the competitiveness of domestic agricultural goods in domestic and...

The aim of the study is to find the answer to the question of how the Common Agricultural Policy aims to achieve optimality at the micro and macro levels, while taking into account social and environmental criteria. The authors wish to draw attention to the problem of ‘composition error’ in...

One of the most important problems in the economies of European countries is the existence of a shadow economy. Its share in GDP in the least economically developed Eastern European countries is more than three times higher than in the world's richest countries in Western Europe. Important...

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...