Direct payments to farmers in Poland and EU member states

The article looks at the changes in the system of direct payments in the EU. The first section briefly examines the history of direct payments and models of payments in the EU. In the second section, the author presents the level of financing of direct payments and examines disparities in terms of average payments per hectare among the EU member states. In the final section of the article, the main focus is placed on the new system of direct payments in Poland. This new regulation introduces better targeted and equally distributed scheme and imposes environmental requirements on the farms