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Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food1
Republic of Slovenia
Slovenian Agriculture and the Slovenian Agriculture and the
European unionEuropean union
Iztok Jarc,
State Secretary for EU Affaires
Visit of students from University of Ancona,
19 April 2004
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food2
Republic of Slovenia
Slovenian Agriculture and Slovenian Agriculture and the European unionthe European union
1. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food
2. Slovenian agriculture
3. Accession Negotiations on Agriculture
4. Introduction of the CAP Reform
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food3
Republic of SloveniaMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food
ORGANISATION CHART OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FOOD
Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Food
Internal Control Service
EU Coordination and InternalAffairs Service
Ministers Office
Public Relations and PromotionService
EU Affairs Department
International Affairs andDevelopment Assistance
Department
Directorate for Agriculture Directorate for Food Safety Secretariat
AgriculturalMarketsSection
StructuralPolicy and
RuralDevelopment
Section
SustainableAgricultural
Section
NaturalDisasterSection
Education,Nongovernmental
Org. andAccounting
Section
Safety andQuality of Food
and FeedSection
ZootechnicSection
Animal Identificationand Registration
Section
ForestrySection
Hunting andFishery Section
LegalAffars
Budget andFinanceService
Investmentsand General
Affairs Service
PersonnelAffairsService
InformationTechnology
Service
Analysis TradeMechanisms and
Records Depatrment
Plant ProductionDepartment
Livestock ProductionDepartment
AgriculturalArea
Department
RuralDevelopmentProgrammeDepartment
Legal SystemsAffairs
Department
Administrativeand Legal
AffairsDepartmrnt
Main Office
FitosanitaryAdministration of the RS
Agency of the RS forAgricultural Markets and Rural
Development
Veterinary Administrationof the RS
Inspectorate of the RS forAgriculture, Forestry and
Slovenia’s agricultural trade has been firmly integradted into bi-lateral, regional and multilateral trade agreements:
• WTO agreement
• Europe agreement – also substantial trade liberalisation
• Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) - another step to trade liberalisation, however some import concessions have been on hold
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food18
Republic of Slovenia
Milestones: in 1998: beginning of legislation screenings in 1999: submission of negotiation positions in December 2002: negotiation agreement concluded.
Objectives: Full and equal integration into the Community legal order Accession must not worsen the economic situation in
agriculture Resolving structural and developmental problems of
agriculture Updating the policy and other forms of sector
management
Accession to the EU- negotiations on agriculture
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Republic of Slovenia
Accession to the EU- negotiations on agriculture
Negotiation components:
1. Implementation of the acquis commounataire (legislation, policy, institution)
2. Requests for temporary (transitional periods) and permanent derogations from the acquis
• long-term goals of the agricultural policy set in 1993 (Slovenia’s Agricultural Strategy) – similar to the CAP goals
• so called ecological-social concept of agricultural policy adopted with stress on multi-functionality of agriculture
• in 1999, reform of the agricultural policy: new policy concept and the ways of goals attainment – as part of preparations to the EU accession
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food21
Republic of Slovenia
Financial framework:Amount and payment method for direct paymentsLevel of production quotas and reference quantitiesAmount of funds allocated to rural development
(EAGGF – Guarantee Measures)
Agreement:
– progressive increase of direct payments
– topping-up from the national budget to the following levels:
2004: 85%, 2005: 90%, 2006: 95%,
2007: 100% = equalization with producers in the current MS
– in total, 249.8 mio EUR from the EU budget have been allocated to Slovenia for rural development in the period 2004-2006.
Accession negotiations on agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food22
Republic of Slovenia
Government decision:
• 2003: CAP-like standard scheme at EU level of 75%. • 2004: no SAPS, but standard scheme (85 % level)
CAP reform introduction - first results of study in favour of
gradual introduction of regional single area payments
Accession Accession effects effects – – selection of direct payments
2. When introducing the CAP reform, Slovenia’s objectives are:
• gradual introduction of the new system of decoupled payments,
• prevention of redistribution effects and shocks for producers
• set up of the agricultural policy for the next 10 years, which is economically attractive for producers and at the same time attention is paid to environmental and food safety issues.