Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2016, 64(3), 979-992 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201664030979

Comparison of Operational Subsidies on Less Favoured Areas in EU Countries

Jana Lososová, Jaroslav Svoboda, Radek Zdeněk
Department of Accounting and Finances, Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 1645/31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

This article is aimed at an analysis of operational subsidies on the Less Favoured Areas (LFA) in the European Union countries. With the help of cluster analysis, the EU countries were divided into groups and, using correlation and regression analyses, the relations between defined indicators were evaluate. The indicators of FADN EU related to the cultivated land area were completed with relative indicators. Some differences were proved in subsidy effectiveness between particular groups of the countries. The amount of operational subsidies only has a positive impact on subsidised costs in the mountain LFAs. Worse productive and climate conditions increase the dependence of the output on subsidies related to cost effectiveness. No dependence of the output share of subsidies and the subsidised costs was proven in all groups.

Keywords: agriculture, CAP, Operational subsidies - excluding on investments, outputs, inputs, LFA
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The authors thank the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic for financial support, Research Program of the Department of Accounting and Finance (RVO160).

Prepublished online: July 4, 2016; Published: July 1, 2016  Show citation

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Lososová, J., Svoboda, J., & Zdeněk, R. (2016). Comparison of Operational Subsidies on Less Favoured Areas in EU Countries. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(3), 979-992. doi: 10.11118/actaun201664030979
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