Direct Payments Distribution Between Farmers in Selected New EU Member States

Adrian SadłowskiRositsa Beluhova-UzunovaJózsef PoppDimo AtanasovBoryana IvanovaMariyana ShishkovaKrum Hristov

DOI 10.7160/aol.2022.140408
No 4/2022, December
pp. 97-107

Sadlowski, A., Beluhova-Uzunova, R., Popp, J., Atanasov, D., Ivanova, B., Shishkova, M. and Hristov, K. (2022) "Direct Payments Distribution Between Farmers in Selected New EU Member States", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 97-107. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2022.140408.

Abstract

The study aims to identify the degree of direct payments concentration in selected Central and Eastern European Member States (compared to the entire EU) and outline the perspectives and recommendations for the next programming period. The spatial scope of the study includes Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria. The time scope covers the period 2009–2019. The survey indicates that the payments distribution in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and to a lesser extent also in Poland, is highly unbalanced. The analysed countries used the redistribution instruments, optional for the Member States, which were introduced by the 2013 CAP reform, to a moderate extent, in order to ensure a more even funds distribution between the beneficiaries. It cannot be ruled out that instruments ensuring a more even funds distribution would be politically easier to introduce at the EU level than at the national level. Nevertheless, also in the next financial perspective, in line with the subsidiarity principle, this issue is left to the Member States.

Keywords

Capping, Common Agricultural Policy, concentration of support, income inequalities, redistributive payment, single area payment.

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