Effetti della Revisione di Medio Termine sul Comparto delle Carni Bovine

The beef and veal market organization regime is going to be strongly reformed by the Mid Term Review (MTR) agreed by the Presidency compromise on 26 June 2003. Actually, the beef and veal supporting aid-system based on various types of direct farmers’ premia will be turned to a single farm payment. Options for partial decoupling can also be applied even regionally depending on member states decision. For Italian beef and veal sector decoupling is a critical issue. The different Italian livestock production systems and the lower financial support because of a partial application of Agenda 2000 make decisions about decoupling a hardly task. Effects of different decoupling options have been analyzed joint to national ceiling reduction. A positive mathematical programming model has been calibrated on the beef and veal sector of Veneto Region. Results show that a decrease in livestock numbers and farmers’ income is mitigated when partial decoupling is applied. A reduction in young cattle price may further compensate the negative impact of decoupling.