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Abstract
This paper presents the results emerging from the application of alternative Common
Agricultural Policy (CAP) scenarios into the Italian econometric country model, developed as
part of the AG-MEMOD research project. Major attention is paid on the effect of the 2003
CAP reform on the Italian durum wheat production and a key role in shaping this impact is
attributed to national choices. These concern the full or partial decoupling regime for the
durum wheat supplementary payment, the introduction of the “quality premium” ex article 69
of the reform and the respective selective application. The implementation of these alternative
CAP scenarios within the Italian AG-MEMOD model eventually confirms how critical
national choices may be in determining the final outcome of the reform itself.