The paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of the agricultural support distribution in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. Author used European Commission statistics of direct payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm holdings in EU Member...

The aim of this paper was to analyze the changes of direct payments of the CAP. During the last 15 years the CAP has changed in response to pressures from the European society and its evolving economy. The 2003 reform marked a new phase in this process, introducing decoupled direct payments, via...

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 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...

Considerations over the direct payments in the support regime of farms in the European Union are presented. Their meaning is analysed and the existing weaknesses are indicated, as well as the beneficial transformations inspired by the direct payments. Necessity of redefinition of aims of the...

The proposals concerning the CAP 2014-2020, presented by the European Commission in 2011, suggest that the nature of this policy will not be substantially altered. This implies that the CAP still will not offer sufficiently efficient and effective instruments supporting structural changes in the...

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...

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...

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...