In Western Europe, representative farm trade unions and farm organizations play a considerable role in the inforcement of farm policy. In Spain, as economic and social «modernization» has developed in recent years only, in a non democratic regime, the State has hampered the progress of such organizations by imposing a corporatist structure on the civil society. The farm sector suffers the consequences of this situation : too many farms organizations and trade unions have been created since the restoration of democracy and they are too weak to serve as an adequate tool fora modernization policy which is essential at the moment of Spain's entry into the EEC.
