Analysis of the Effects in Italy of Alternative Hypotheses of Regionalization of the Single Payment Scheme

The Fischler reform approved in 2003 represented a turning point in the concept of the ‘first pillar’ of the CAP. The Single Payment Scheme (SPS), in fact, deepened the process of decoupling agricultural support that began with the MacSharry reform, removing the link between support received by producers and what they produce and linking support instead to the possession of land and to exercising an agricultural activity in the respect of cross-compliance.