Abstract
The two preceding chapters present an analysis of the domestic factors and their changes in Denmark and Greece since the two countries joined the EU. Based on this analysis, in this chapter I compare systematically the three domestic factors and their characteristics – the organisation of the sector (the micro level), the domestic politics and network governance (macro level) – in the two countries examined in this study. This comparison generates original insights and well-supported explanations on how domestic factors affect administrative choices, patterns, practices and style differently in the two examined countries. The differences in these factors have led to variation in adaptation to CAP decisions as addressed in the main research question in this book: How do the domestic factors affect variation in the member states’ administrative adaptation to European agricultural policies and why? Specifically, the analysis shows that Denmark presents a high degree of administrative ‘absorption’, whereas Greece displays ‘inertia’ even though agricultural policy in both countries has followed the CAP rules since they joined the EU.
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Greek Permanent Representation, Brussels.
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Although Venstre means ‘left’ in Danish, its name refers to its liberal and democratic ideas and aimed to differentiate it from the conservative party.
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K, PASEGES;B, Prefecture of Thessaloniki.
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A coordinator (DF), two gatekeepers (DF, MA), two representatives (DAC and DF), three consultants (DFEE) and three liaisons (DFFE, MINFAF and MA).
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Two liaisons (MINRDF and PASEGES) and one consultant (MINRDF).
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‘Ypiresia Scheseon Ellados – EK’ (Unit for Relations between Greece and the EC). It was a Unit headed by a Director General (Alternate) and consisting of five Directorates: Legal EU-Affairs, Plant-Production, Animal-Production, Agricultural Economy, Agri-Structures (P, Ministry, personal contact).
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See Chap. 2.
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‘Since the beginning the cadastre consisted of two parts: the cadastral register and the cadastral maps. Both of these components have been updated continually ever since. The resulting property framework from the enclosure movement formed the basis for the new cadastral maps. Even if the primary purpose of the cadastre was to levy land taxes (based on the yielding capacity of the soil), the cadastral identification was also used to support the land ownership and land transfer system. The Land Registry System was established 1845 at the local district courts for recording and protecting legal rights of ownership, mortgage, easements and leases for land’ (Enemark 2003).
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For example, under the Digital Registers, the Danish concept of integrated land information is organised as a network of interactive subsystems containing the most relevant information such as the Cadastral Register, the Land Book, the Building and Housing Register, the Communal Property Data System (property valuation and taxation) and the Central Population Register. Responsibility for spatial information registers is distributed among different public authorities at the state, county and municipal level. The registers can be linked by common identifiers such as cadastral number, property identification, and geo-referenced addresses, which are maintained in the Cross-Reference Register (Enemark 2005).
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Two interviewees asked for anonymity. However, they provided the information LL, PA (MIN), AMA, Dairy Board.
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Complete decoupling, except for special male bovine premium (75% coupled) and sheep and goat premium (50% coupled). Share of the farms that receive SPS of the total number of farms (percent of total), estimate 99.99%. Tradability of SPS: payment entitlements are tradable within the member state (Denmark is one region) (DCRA, RLG 2007).
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SS, DFFE.
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Complete decoupling. Application of Article 69: 10% of the ceiling for arable crops and the beef sector and 5% of the ceiling for the sheep and goat sector, dairy premium in 2007.
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Chatzopoulou, S. (2020). Comparing in Administrative Adaptation to CAP in Denmark-Greece. In: The Europeanization of National Administrations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47223-8_5
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