@article{Rašovská:206847,
      recid = {206847},
      author = {Rašovská, Adriana},
      title = {COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY 2007 – 2013 VS. 2014 -2020},
      journal = {Acta Carolus Robertus},
      address = {2014},
      number = {1064-2016-86463},
      series = {4},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Slovakia is perceived as a leader among the European  countries due to its size of farms. Despite of a high  concentration of farms - up to 95.1% of the utilized  agricultural land are farmed by large farms - the Slovak  agriculture is considerably less productive. 

The reform  of Common Agriculture Policy tries to develop not only the  traditional role of agriculture, a food production, but  shapes the face of country, affects the quality of  environment and also helps to increase the potential of  tourism development through the cooperation of direct  payments system, capping and greening.

To make a right  decision in allocation of this support, it is necessary to  become familiar with its advantages and disadvantages  especially in Slovak agricultural conditions: 

Direct  payments system – the use of objective criteria would  ensure a more equitable and efficient use of budgetary  resources in comparison to e.g. EU flat rate, where  Slovakia is paid with lower direct payments than the other  Member States. Objective criteria reflect the dual role of  direct payments in providing income support and public  goods.

Capping - The primary objective of capping is to  increase the downward nature of employment in animal  production, or at least to maintain its current state in  Member States like Slovakia, Czech Republic or Germany,  where the biggest farms are located due to the historical  development. In previous years, the animal production has  been forgotten regarding to higher payments paid to the  crop production. This unbalance could be changed by reform  of Common Agriculture Policy.

Greening – opponents of  green rules, which should ensure the maintaining of the  permanent pastures; diversification and maintaining the  "ecological landscape” highlight their possible negative  impacts like reduction in the competitiveness of Slovak  agricultural products; decrease of potential output growth;  increased costs in crop production; etc. But one of its  indisputable advantage hides in the opportunity to spread  the crop of soybeans and pulses that could be a rewarding  alternative of possible farms losses in these increasingly  hotter summers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/206847},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.206847},
}