Renty strukturalne jako instrument poprawy struktury obszarowej rolnictwa i przyspieszenia wymiany pokoleń

Early retirements from farming is one of the instrument of agricultural structure improvement and generation change acceleration introduced to the EU legislation by the Council Regulation (EEC) No 2079/92 and 1257/99, transferred to the Polish law. In the article the EU and the Polish binding legal solutions in the field of early retirements from farming were analyzed. The Author pointed out advantages and disadvantages as well as provided an assessment of impact possibilities that early retirements can have on agricultural area structure improvement and on generation exchange acceleration due to 2004 regulation. It was pointed out that early retirements introduced by this regulation played rather social role as they influenced on the generation exchange acceleration but they did not have any relevant effect on the farm structure improvement.