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six Guest Editorial bv Imre Ntmelh Hungarian Agriculture at the Dawn of EU Accession Ungarische Landwirtschaft kurz vor dem EU-Bcitritt L’agriculture hongroise au temps zero de l’accession

twelve by Csubu Jansik Food industry FDI - A n integrating Force between Western and Eastern European Agri-food Sectors Les IDE dam I’agrodmentaire : une force dintkgration entre les secteurs alimentaires des pays dEurope occidengale et ortentale FDI in der N ~ g s m i # e ~ d n s t r i e - We treibende Kraft bei der Integration der ost- und westeumpiihchen Agrar. und Nahrungsmittelsektoren

eighteen b y Bemhavd BrZimmer G 1Jkich Koester Governance of the Common Agricultural Policy in the New Member States Politique agricole commune et gouvernance dam les nouveau Etats membres Dnrehfiihrung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik in den neuen Mitgliedstaaten

In Forthcoming Issues Transatlantic Differences in Consumer Preferences.

European Consumers’ Acceptance of US Hormone-treated Beef.

Financial Distress with Family Farm Transfer in Six European Countries.

twenty four Parlons Graphiques bv Curry Muhon Agriculture in the Economies of the New Member States and Candidate Countries L’agriculture dans l’economie : les nouveaux pays-membres et les candidats a 1’uE Landwirtschaft in den Volkswirtschaften der nenen Mitgliedsliinder und der Beitrittskan didatenlander

twenty six b y Momku ffurtmann G Sebusrfun Scbomhwg Is Meat Processing in Central and Eastern European New Member States Competitive after EU Accession? La f?B&re viande des nouveaux pays membres d’Europe centrale et orientale sera-t-elle compktitive a p r b l’accession 1

Wird die f l e ~ h v e ~ i t e n d e Industrie la den nenen mittel- und osteurop2ischen Mitgliedstaaten nach dem EU-Beitrltt wettbewerbsfiiiig sein?

thirty two by Mutthew Gorton & Sophia Dutiidota Farm Performance, Direct Payments and EU Enlargement Performance des exploitations, paiements directs et elargissement de I’UE Wittschaftlicher Erfolg von Landwirt- schaftsbetrieben, Direktzahlungen und EU- Erweiterung

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Impact of WHO Dietary Recommendations on World Sugar Consumption, Production and Trade.

The Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease on the Price of Beef.

Time to Rethink Rural Development

thirty eight Point de w e by Christian If C R Henning G Clwe Lutacz-Lohmunn Will Enlargement Gridlock CAP Reforms? a Political Economy Perspective Se peut-iJ que 1’6largissement pamlyse la reforme de la PAC ? Un point de vue d’kconomie politique. Wird die Erweiterung die Reformen der GAP blockieren? Eine politokonomische Perspektive

forty four Summary by E ? ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ e C ~ i , a ~ s z ~ - L ~ z ~ u 6 .Ifantieiff 1 ’agwzi

Agri-Food Exports to the GEE&: Winners and Losers from EU Enlargement Les exportations agroalimentakes vers les pays de la C o ~ u n a u t ~ Enropeembe : les gagnants et les perdants de I’CIargissement de 1’Union Europ6enne Exporte der Agrar- und Emiihrungswirtschaft in dle MOEL: Gewinner und VerBerer der EU-Erweiterung

forty five Summary by Matthew Corton & Sophia Duuidouu Is Agriculture in the CEECs Internationally Competitive? L’agriculture des pays &Europe centrale et orientale (Peco) est-elle compktitive sur le plan international? Karin die Landwirtschaft der MOEL im jnternationalen Wettbewerb bestehen?

forty six Letters to the Editor Ur Ldszlo Vujdu

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Dear reader,

Editorial Policy In the last issue I highlighted the importance of editorial sustainability and in particular the need to ensure an adequate flow of good quality articles relevant to current agri-food and rural resource policy and practice. I am pleased to say there has been a good response from authors and this will help to achieve my target of raising the rate of submissions by 25 per cent. In order to assist potential authors I list below a number of suggested themes around which I would particularly welcome submissions - but note, this is not an exhaustive list and please do feel free to submit in other areas if you wish. It is interesting (and reassuring!) to note the congruence between these themes and the list of European research priorities outlined in the next section,

Policy analysis-ex ante and ex post evaluations of EU and international policy changes

Impacts of EU

I am pleased with the response to my target of increasing submissions by 25 per cent J J John Davis Managing Editor

Enlargement including trade aspects

Political economy of policy reform

North-South trade issues

Rural development -including farm competitiveness, agri-environm en t , sustainability, renewable energy, sociology of rural change

Biosecurity and food chain management

Technology and innovation

Fisheries economics

Implications of the regulatory framework, for example the Water and Nitrates Directives

European Commission and Ministerial perspectives on policy issues

If you feel you could’write for EuroCboices around these or other themes please be sure to adhere to our

submission guidelines at: www, EuroChoices.org. And note that the different sections provide you with opportunities to write at different lengths and in a variety of styles on a particular topic.

European research co- operation and priorities

The Netherlands Presidency has produced an interesting report’ on research co- operation and priorities within Europe. The rationale for the initiative rested on the fact that member states face many common cross-border challenges. However, Europe is still characterised by 25 national research policies and research agenda, plus the European research Framework Programmes. The Presidency sent a questionnaire to the delegations of the 25 EU member states with the aim of providing insight into common research themes, the research policy issues on which they are willing to cooperate and the ambitions of each member state with regard to the level of cooperation. Amongst other things, the report concludes that, ‘...In most EU member states (and in some cases: regions or federal provinces) the Ministry/ Department responsible for policy-making in the domain

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abonnements vers I’objectif que je m’6tais fix6 d’un accroissement de 25% progresse de faGon satisfaisante jl

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f if ~ c h freue rnich, dass rnein Ziel, die ZahI der Abonnenten urn 25 Prozent zu erhohen, erreicht wurde

of Agriculture, Food, Rural Development and Fisheries is aiso the predominant funder of research in this domain’ and that, ‘ . . .From comparison of the current national policy priorities with the main research priorities, it can be concluded that the latter tend to refiect more or less the overall policy concerns’.

In the final section on ‘Main Future EU Agricultural Research Priorities’ the following areas are identified.

Sustainable farm production, including organic farming, sustainable utilization of natural resources and renewable energy.

Sustainable food and products, especially food/produ~t safety and quality. Consumer orientation in the food production and food distribution chain.

Rural d ~ v e l o p ~ e n t , especially research on enhancing the profitability and competitiveness of agriculture and food production and on the social dimension.

Technology and science, especially biotechnology, genomics and GMOs,

including coexistence.

Animal health and welfare.

Policies and policy orientations, like globalisation, global food markets and CAP-reform.

Strengthening the knowledge base of policies and assessment of policies.

In this Issue I am pleased to be able to lead in this issue with our first major article on fisheries economics. Arnason et al. evaluate the cod fisheries of Denmark, Iceland and Norway by comparing the actual with the optimal harvesting policies. They conclude that these policies are inefficient in all three cases and that inefficiency has been increasing over time.

In the Counterpoint section we continue our debate on EU dairy policy reform. In separate comments by Harvey and by Breustedt and Koester the conclusion of Bouamra- Mechemache and R~quillart that the retention of dairy quotas might be optimal is challenged - the latter, however, continue to assert that in the specific case of the dairy sector this is a valid option.

Two contributions deal with differing aspects of farm income data and anaiysis. In the Parlons Graphiques, Phimister et al. use FADN data from Scottish farms to demonstrate the extent of farm income mobility. Meanwhile in

a Point de Vue, Vrolijk et al. argue that the FADN data set has been greatly underutilised for policy analysis and outline some of the potential uses of the data.

Two articles look at different aspects of European consumer attitudes to new technology, both co-incidentally based on empirical work in Norway. Alfnes and Rickertsen explore consumer preferences for US hormone-treated beef whilst Grimsrud et al. examine attitudes to Genetically Modified foods. Both draw rather negative conclusions about the prospects of consumer acceptance of these technologies.

Finally, Wilson and Kinsella analyse the impact of Foot and Mouth Disease on the UK beef industry They quantify the substanial costs incurred and the significant increase in the marketing margin following the outbreak.

I welcome your feedback on any aspect of EuroCboices.

Yours ever,

Email: jobn. dauis~E~roC~o~ces . 0’8

Council of the European Union, Brussels, (10 November 2004). Towards Cooperation Between Research Funders and Programme Managers in the Domain of Aqitulmre, Food, Rural Development and Fisberies in the European Union.

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