ABSTRACT
The policies and legislation of the European Union's (EU), including its Common Agricultural Policy, have been a major influence on agriculture in the United Kingdom since it joined what was then the EEC in 1973. At the time of writing, financial support policies for agriculture are on the common basis of the EU legislation for its Common Agricultural Policy. Northern Ireland remains within the EU's Single Market so far as it relates to goods, including agricultural produce, and therefore its regulation on such matters as standards and labelling. Much of that complex pattern of decision making, finding the better answers for the people in each situation, will turn on how values move and the review, advice and support of agricultural valuers. The payments to farmers under that regime were consolidated into area payments with the creation of the Single Payment Scheme in 2005, now replaced by the Basic Payment Scheme from 2015.
