Decentralization policy schemes (DPSs) in the public sector have been implemented in different ways by Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Both approaches have led to a transfer of competencies from state administration to self-government with the aim of improving the efficiency of the delivery of...

In order to foster the competitiveness of the food supply chain, the European Commission is committed to promote and facilitate the restructuring and consolidation of the agricultural sector by encouraging the creation of voluntary agricultural producer organisations. To support the policy...

The aim of this paper is to verify, whether business entities associated in the producer groups were more successful than the non-associated ones in the period 2009 – 2012. The results have shown that there are differences between average values of economic indicators of producer groups’...