ABSTRACT
Macroeconomic studies usually emphasize the subordinated nature and dependent character of agricultural policies and stress that their content responds to a rationality further and further removed from agriculture as a productive sector and from specific public powers charged with its regulation. This chapter provides some theoretical considerations with respect to the modes of organization assumed by agriculturalists in European Community (EC) member countries. It provides the reader with a level of generality and abstraction of the different and diverse situations encountered in the EC in order to obtain a general interpretative framework. The chapter also provides a panorama of the situation of agricultural organizations within EC national contexts. It explores the change undergone by the system of agricultural representation and the role of communitarian institutions. In essence, in agriculture the practices of interaction among political actors are diversified and develop with their own peculiarities in each productive sphere.
