Uproszczenia Wspólnej Polityki Rolnej – nośny slogan czy absolutna konieczność?

In the process of shaping the Common Agricultural Policy, there continues to dominate the search for legitimizing support, in particular for direct payments, as well as the need to achieve a political compromise regarding sensitive regional issues of agriculture and rural areas. This situation does not serve to improve the quality and transparency of law, understood in particular as preventing excessive occurrence of legislative changes and undue fragmentation of the rules. Also, as a result of the recent reform, it has been decided not to make any radical solution toward simplifying the most important instrument of direct payments. The indicated by the European Commission simplification elements introduced in the CAP after 2013, in comparison to the new complex solutions, are of a symbolic nature. The introduction of the multi-component system of direct subsidies, including payments for greening, will result in a significant increase in the cost of administrative services for the mechanism. Therefore, the demand to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy is still valid and urgent as the previous efforts aimed at its realization have proved to be counterproductive.