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...

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...

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...