Effects of payment schemes on the performances of agricultural exploitations from Romania

Abstract

The paper aims to bring a contribution in increasing the economic efficiency of the agricultural exploitations and the effects of the payment schemes on their performances. Also the paper intends to analyze the changes produced in the meantime in the European agricultural landscape by implementing the payment system knowing that for the new member states is applied the unique payment scheme on the surface, (including g Romania) is foreseeing the possibility to apply this simplified system and after 2013. The financial aid granted to the farmers under the form of a unique payment scheme, both under the form of historical model and the regionalized one, is based on a greater measure or less on a past reference period (currently set to be between 2000 and 2002). Therefore is intended the actualization of these to take into account the changes produced meantime in the European agricultural landscape. For the new member states that applies the unique payment scheme on the surface, (including Romania) is foreseeing the possibility of applying this simplified system and after 2013. Since the current policy measures for the development of agriculture is directly affecting Romania, in what follows we will briefly present which where the proposed reforms, then the way in which those were incorporated into the member counties, as well as and the options that Romania has in applying these agricultural policies.