| Abstract: | In almost all developed countries agriculture is protected by state interventions of a differing nature and degree, subject to political decisions. These decisions are determined by the institutional framework of the relevant decision-making process. In this article it is demonstrated that the institutional framework of the EC differs to a large degree from those in most parliamentary democracies. Such institutional peculiarities favour the transformation of political interests of farmers into decisions on farm policy by the Council of Ministers largely because of a lack of countervailing checks. |
