DOI: 10.32725/978-80-7394-976-1.27

Development of the Serbian sugar industry in the European context

Martin Vaněk, Věra Bečvářová, Nina Pavlovič

Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Business Economics, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic, xvanek6@mendelu.cz

Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Department of Regional and Business Economics, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic, vera.becvarova@mendelu.cz

The paper deals with the development of the sugar industry in the Republic of Serbia in the context of changes in the business environment, which are largely related to the application for accession to the European Union submitted on 19 December 2009. Serbia was granted candidate status on 1 March 2012. This is the period when the European Union (EU) Member States had to apply measures within the sugar beet-sugar commodity vertical resulting from the Common Market Organisation (CMO), which aimed to increase the competitiveness of the European sugar industry, in particular through a quota regime and minimum purchase prices. The analysis consists in the evaluation of the basic production indicators of the different phases of this commodity vertical in Serbia. The indicators found are then compared with the trends of the EU Member States. On the basis of this comparison, Serbia's approach to the individual reforms applied under the EU Common Agricultural Policy, which as a country in the pre-accession period it has to integrate into its national legislation, is also assessed. 

Keywords: sugar beet, Common agricultural policy, Common organization of sugar market, sugar reform

pages: 182-187