Brussels EIP stakeholders event on 19th November 2012: support for new agricultural innovation networking with many open questions about the implementation.
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Emil Erjavec
Economist
Emil Erjavec is Professor of Agricultural Policy and Economics and Vice Dean at the Biotechnical Faculty University of Ljubljana Slovenia. His professional expertise includes various aspects of agricultural and rural development policy, especially CAP, EU integration, sector modelling and policy impact assessments. He has been national coordinator of various EU FP projects and invited speaker to the conferences on EU integration and agricultural policy issues. In the years 1998-2004 he was the member of negotiation team for EU-accession of Slovenia responsible for agriculture. Since 2008, he is President of the Slovene Association of Agricultural Economists (DAES) and a member of the EAAE Board.
Recent blog posts written by Emil Erjavec
Gunfight for CAP Budget Money
The CAP budget negotiations have started to heat up, negotiators have formed the clubs of like-minded countries. Also this time negotiations are mostly a (gun)fight for preserving or improving the net position of Member States.
Why no “Green Revolution” in new Member States?
Competitiveness and innovation in the agriculture of new Member States before EU accession can be assessed as relatively poor. In a part of the area, the situation even resembled the situation in developing countries. In the parts where a certain level of development was achieved, i.e. closer to the Central Europe part of EU, [...]
Greening of the CAP: is the “Emperor Naked”?
The post is discussing whether the substance of the proposed greening of the CAP even allows for a more targeted and environmentally tailored orientation of the policy, or is it more about the fight for preservation of the money for agriculture. The answer could be that the green conditioning of the direct payments not only lacks a clearly defined target, which could lead to additional administrative problems, but also its environmental effects and economic justification are questionable.
New CAP income payment could produce new policy failures
The new CAP reform should take account of the differentiation of the level of payments by the use of land.
