A major drawback of constant elasticity supply and demand systems, which are widely used in simulation models for applied policy analysis, is that they can’t be restricted to globally comply with certain conditions implied by economic theory. This paper compares constant elasticity systems to...

At the EU Council in December 2004, European heads of governments will decide on apotential date for the start of EU accession negotiations with Turkey. Various recent analysesassess the cost of applying the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP) to Turkeywithout taking into account the...

This paper presents a partial equilibrium simulation analysis of EU sugar market reformswith a version of the European Simulation Model (ESIM) addressing three issues: preferential EUimports are a function of the price differential between world market and EU price, EU supplyfunctions are...

The EU protects EU growers of 15 kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables against internationalcompetition not only by the means of ad valorem tariffs of up to 20%, but also by the EUentry-price system (EPS), which is designed to restrict imports below the product-specific,politically designated...

China has become a major exporter of fresh fruits and vegetables in recent years. Between 2002and 2006, China’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports rose continuously, more than doubling in valueto reach nearly $5 billion US in 2006. The net trade position for fresh fruits and vegetables hasalso...

Negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) have been ongoing since2001, and progress has been slow most of the time. In July 2007 the chairman of theagricultural negotiating group, Crawford Falconer, presented draft modalities foragriculture (WTO, 2007) which document considerable...

Future costs of compliance with obligatory animal welfare standards in the EU for poultry andegg production are signiWcant and may lead to relocation of production to third countries. After anoverview of diVerent rationales for complementary policies to prevent relocation, this article...

The assessment of the role for the EU and the member states in environmental andagricultural policy in this paper is based on the principle of subsidiarity. Applied to thequestion of centralisation versus decentralisation of policy design and implementation, thesubsidiarity principle states that...

The Barcelona Process (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) celebrated its tenth anniversary witha Summit of Head of Governors in November 2005. A five-year work programme, agreed bythe partners, marks the renewed efforts to implement the objectives of the Euro-MediterraneanPartnership. One of the...

The EU recently completed negotiating a series of Association Agreements withMediterranean countries. Trade preferences for agricultural goods granted under theseAgreements, as well as under former arrangements, are analyzed by calculating the valueof preference margins at several stages in the...