Evaluating sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in policy making, evaluation practice and the scientific world in general. However, at present, there is neither a generally accepted set of measures and evaluation methods, nor specific standards to be met. Sustainable...

Mit dem Papier „Enlargement and Agriculture - Successfully lntegrating the New Member States into the CAP“ vom Jänner 2002 hat die EU-Kommission erstmalig detaillierter dargelegt, wie und in welchem Ausmaß Gelder aus der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) für die Länder Mittel- und...

Considerations regarding the structure of the CAP after 2013 are well underway. A key issue in this respect is the future of decoupled direct payments (DDP) in the first pillar, which represent the bulk of support for EU agriculture. The ‘Options Paper’ of the EU Commission indicates that...

Subsidies linked to production have been classified to be environmentally harmful by OECD. A core element of the EU 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform is to decouple income support from production. This paper estimates the environmental consequences of this policy reform. An...

Direct payments are the most important expenditure of the Common Agricultural Policy. They are mostly in the form of decoupled direct payments which are intended to be allocatively neutral. Increasing volumes of such transfers imply that distributive aspects of CAP expenditures become more...

Ten years ago, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined the EU. The application of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) caused major repercussions on the agricultural sectors of the entering countries. This article analyses the welfare effects of accession to the EU on the agricultural markets in...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has evolved from an allocative towards a dis-tributive policy. Distributive policies aim at correcting market outcomes according to politi-cally determined objectives usually through transferring money from richer to poorer house-holds. We compare the...

Considerations regarding the structure of the CAP after 2013 are well underway. A key issue in this respect is the future of decoupled direct payments (DDP) in the first pillar, which represent the bulk of support for EU agriculture. The 'Options Paper' of the EU Commission indicates that first...

Die Entwicklung der EU-Landwirtschaft nach 1945 wurde durch die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) stark beeinflusst. Die konkreten Maßnahmen zur Erreichung der politisch definierten Ziele der GAP als auch für die dafür eingesetzten Budgetmittel bedürfen der gesellschaftlichen Legitimation. Der...