Conference paper

Accession to the European Union in the Field of Agriculture - Siovenia's Experience

Miroslav Rednak ; 'Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije, Oddelek za ekonomiko kmetijstva, Hacquetova 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Emil Erjavec ; Univerza v Ljubljani, Biotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za zootehniko, Groblje 3, 1230 Domžale, Slovenia
Tina Volk ; 'Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije, Oddelek za ekonomiko kmetijstva, Hacquetova 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

The paper presents Slovenia's experience with the new European Union (EU) enlargement process in the area of agriculture. The pre-accession process incorporates the harmonisation of legislation, institution building, adjustment of the agricultural policy, accession negotiations, and adjustment and restructuring of agriculture and food-processing industry for the competitive conditions of the EU internal market. The development of agriculture and the agricultural policy in Slovenia have been considerably different from that in the EU. Slovenia, therefore, has to undergo a thorough agricul¬tural policy reform, marked particularly by the introduction of direct payments and other comparable mechanisms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The reform is supported by the new Agricul¬ture Act, which provides a basis for implementing comparable agricultural policy. The Agency for Agricultural Markets and Rural Development has been established as an organisation responsible for implementation of the CAP measures. During the negotiating process Slovenia has so far carried out a thorough two-year screening of legislation and submitted its negotiating position. In the posi¬tion, Slovenia expressed its readiness to adopt the acquis, it requested some minor permanent or tem¬porary derogation from the acquis, and required to have a status equal to that of the present Member States with regard to the distribution of budgetary funds (in particular direct payments). Reforms and the negotiating process have over the period been supported by the agricultural economic research, based on a comparative analysis of agriculture and agricultural policy, and the model-based and sectoral estimation of effects of accession. Accession will be favourable for the Slovenian agriculture only in case, which is politically less realistic, that it will be treated equally to the present Member States and that it achieves equal level of competitiveness of agriculture and food-processing industry.

Keywords

agriculture; European Union; negotiations; Slovenia

Hrčak ID:

179165

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/179165

Publication date:

1.2.2001.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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