Examining the Legal Aspects of Agricultural Policies in Relations between the EU and Republic of Moldova

Abstract

At the time of the establishment of the common market by the Treaty of Rome, in 1958, the agriculture of the six founding member states was characterized by strong state intervention. In order to include agricultural products in the free movement of goods, while maintaining state intervention in the agricultural sector, it was necessary to eliminate national intervention mechanisms incompatible with the common market and to transpose them at the community level: this was the main reason for the emergence common agricultural policies (www.europarl.europa.eu). In April and May 2022, the Twinning project assisted the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry in the final stages of public presentation of the final product regarding the National Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Development (NSARD 2023-2027) and interventions (www.eeas.europa.eu, p. 83). To ensure that information on agriculture and rural development is collected efficiently, of high quality, reliable and accessible to relevant stakeholders, Twinning experts develop a model that can guide beneficiaries in the process of establishing a data system. Our research, carried out in the targeted field, showed that the efforts of the Republic of Moldova in view of the role of the legal aspects of the EU's agricultural policy and the essence of agricultural products in the relations between the EU and Moldova, are based on three main directions: the actions of government institutions, especially in the sector agricultural and energy; the national and international efforts, first of all, in common with the European ones, within some programs and projects, as well as the efforts undertaken at the microeconomic level by some companies.