The Adoption of the Common Agricultural Policy – Elements of Pre and Post Accession Impact
The short time left until the EU accession date, has become a strong pressure factor for the speeding up of the necessary restructuring processes of the agrifood sector and rural areas. This is a challenge without precedent for the decision makers in the following period in order to prepare the sect...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Institute of Romania
2005-05-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of European Affairs |
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| Online Access: | https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_Vol5_No1_The_Adoption_of_the_Common_Agricultural_Policy.pdf |
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| Summary: | The short time left until the EU accession date, has become a strong pressure factor for the speeding up of the necessary restructuring processes of the agrifood sector and rural areas. This is a challenge without precedent for the decision makers in the following period in order to prepare the sector from both institutional and legislative point and of views to implement the Common Agricultural Policy and for the management of the funds related to it. In the same time the sector also has to be to be “morally” prepared for the exigencies and potential shocks due to the lack of competitiveness after entering the Single Market and this activity has to be also a priority. The absorption of community funds proposed for Romania in 2004, will depend especially of the wish for restructuring and „the abilities” of the decision makers in chasing the right pattern of agricultural policy for the next period, and after accession. The cost/benefits estimations in this document are based on a very simplistic approach. The scenario proposed starts from the optimistic hypothesis that, until 2007 Romania will be fully prepared from institutional point of view, as well as from point of view of the requirements regarding food security, animal welfare, the environment’s state etc., and it will be able to produce at the level established by negotiations, fulfilling 100% the eligibility conditions, and Romania will enter on the Single Market with the negotiated elements (quotas, basic areas, reference productions, etc.). The assessment methodology is based on the application of CAP legislation in force for each product and the estimation of direct payments and funds allocated for market measures following the rigors imposed to Romania for the gradual allocation of direct payments. |
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| ISSN: | 1582-8271 1841-4273 |