The recent inter-institutional decisions about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020 introduced a strong national flexibility to the management of the European agricultural policy. Italy and the other Member States (MS) play key roles in the allocation of resources from Pillar 1, which establishes the percentages of the financial ceiling that will be assigned to each specific support scheme, from a more target-oriented perspective. The need to implement an efficient and effective policy involves an objective and impartial evaluation of the potential effects that could be caused by the application of different measures and could aid politicians in their decision-making process. The article takes six different allocation scenarios that combine all of the new typologies of direct payments (mandatory or optional) into consideration and proposes a new qualitative method for evaluating the consistency between the possible results and the priorities that were identified by the European Commission (EC). The purpose is to show how a qualitative evaluation method may be helpful in demonstrating the main potential economic and social effects of certain interesting allocation scenarios used to analyse how different combinations of direct payments could differently affect the Italian agricultural sector, either achieving or missing certain political targets.

Direct payments 2014-2020: a qualitative method for evaluating resource allocation scenarios in Italy

CILIBERTI, STEFANO;FRASCARELLI, Angelo
2013

Abstract

The recent inter-institutional decisions about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020 introduced a strong national flexibility to the management of the European agricultural policy. Italy and the other Member States (MS) play key roles in the allocation of resources from Pillar 1, which establishes the percentages of the financial ceiling that will be assigned to each specific support scheme, from a more target-oriented perspective. The need to implement an efficient and effective policy involves an objective and impartial evaluation of the potential effects that could be caused by the application of different measures and could aid politicians in their decision-making process. The article takes six different allocation scenarios that combine all of the new typologies of direct payments (mandatory or optional) into consideration and proposes a new qualitative method for evaluating the consistency between the possible results and the priorities that were identified by the European Commission (EC). The purpose is to show how a qualitative evaluation method may be helpful in demonstrating the main potential economic and social effects of certain interesting allocation scenarios used to analyse how different combinations of direct payments could differently affect the Italian agricultural sector, either achieving or missing certain political targets.
2013
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