Legal and Financial Mechanisms of Income Support for Agricultural Producers in the Face of Agricultural Crises

Abstract

The subject of the article is issues related to the attitude of the legislator to the occurrence of certain deformations in the agricultural market, which reduce the financial security of agricultural producers. These deformations are associated with the appearance of negative economic phenomena, such as risks, crisis situation or crisis. They disrupt the profitable operation of farms and, in extreme cases, lead to the extinction of agricultural activities. The purpose of the article was to try to answer the question of whether the normative solutions proposed at the EU level protect the income of agricultural producers in the face of the occurrence of crises in agriculture. The article concludes that the legal and economic instruments adopted within the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy for 2023–2027 largely do not meet the current needs arising from the protection of the livelihoods of EU agricultural producers. This is due to the fact that they are not adequate to deal with the effects of the current multiple crises in the agricultural market, related to the war in Ukraine, the occurrence of large-scale negative climatic phenomena. and the still felt effects of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This causes agricultural producers to fail to cope with its negative effects.