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Abstract
Economic growth and social progress are unthinkable without the use of
natural resources. Their exploatation in the previous decades was mostly
accelerated, unplanned and often followed by the devastation of the environment.
Modern theories of economic growth give the great importance to mitigation of this
problem. Policy of sustainable development find its place more and more in the
economies of the developed countries. Impossibility of the states to appropriate the
larger part of the GDP for the sustainable development is the biggest drag on its
full affirmation. The EU member countries also meet with this problem. There is
the political will for soloving the problem on protection of the environment in the
EU, but it is subject to the need of maintaining the macroeconomic balance and
preservation of the external competitiveness. This approach is even more tightened
in the times of crises and recesions. However, the EU has the long time measures
of the environment protection out of which the agri-environmental measures are
extremly significant. They are realized at the level of the EU and at the national
levels. Can the agro-environmental measures give the macroeconomic impulses
and at what level? That's why the agri-environmental measures in the economic
terms have the keynesian character. The other benefit is the increase of the land
prices, as the territories under the agri-environmental measures become more
expensive in the course of time, what is significant for the future investitors. Work
confirms the limited macroeconomic activity of the agri-environmental measures
as the significant positive externality of the EU.