Inhaltsangabe: Introduction: The focus of the thesis is the Direct Payments Systems of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union as introduced as part of the MacSharry reform and extended under the Agenda 2000. The objective is to analyse the current system and the proposals made by the Commission in January 2003 regarding a decoupling of these payments. The Common Agricultural Policy was one of the first policies developed in the European Union, and one of those regulated in the greatest detail." Among the European Union's policies, the CAP is regarded as one of the most...
Inhaltsangabe: Introduction: The focus of the thesis is the Direct Payments Systems of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union as introdu...