How are public transaction costs in regional agri-environmental scheme delivery influenced by EU regulations?

Anja Weber

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2014, vol. 57, issue 6, 937-959

Abstract: Implementing agri-environmental schemes (AES) induces private and public transaction costs (TCs). To date, research has investigated TCs stemming from the relationship between (regional) administrations and farmers. However, implementing AES within the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) offers partial reimbursement of payments but implies an additional transaction and TCs. This paper investigates the effects of EU regulations on occurrence and composition of regional public TCs qualitatively by using Hesse, Germany, as a case study. Using insights from political science theories, I present results from interviews with administrative units: EU-required structural and procedural prerequisites shape the regional implementation and draw the focus towards expense of EU-based TCs. Moreover, there are spillovers onto farmers' TCs. Thus, the CAP framework is an important influencing factor, and resulting TCs may reduce the budgetary benefit obtained from the reimbursement.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.776950

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