This paper evaluates the rationality of an EU wide flat area payment (EUWFAP) as new CAP direct payment scheme, based on the analysis of its budgetary and market impacts. Using the AGMEMOD 2020 combined partial equilibrium model, the introduction of the EUWFAP in 2013 is compared with a baseline continuation of the current policy. Results suggest that there would be minor negative impacts on the agricultural production at the EU level, but that more substantial impact for some commodities, most notably beef, and could occur in the individual EU Member States. An important outcome of such a policy reform would be a substantial change in the budget allocation between Member Sates.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2843016
Experimental hop breeding data were used to create a model of an expert system based on the multi-attribute decision modeling methodology DEX. The DEX-HOP 1.0 model assessed and ranked individual hop hybrids’ and hop varieties’ breeding potential. The model has 18 attributes, hierarchically grouped. A comparative analysis of the quality of different Slovenian hop promising hybrids in comparison with the already established foreign commercial varieties was performed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 534412
The Policy harmonized (PH) approach, by systematizing and harmonizing the management and use of policy data, ensures that projected differential policy impacts arising from changes in common EU policies reflect the likely actual differnetial impact asopposed to differences in how "common" policies are implemented within analytical models. PH approach allows for the quantitative assessment of the impact of various elements of EU CAP direct support schemes, where the production effects of direct payments are accounted through reaction prices formed by producer price and policy price add-ons. Results from an application of the PH approach are presented and discussed in the case of beef sector for EU and selected Member states.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2888328