Legitymizacja organizacji rolników w UE i ich wpływ na regulacje unijnego prawa rolnego | Legitimization of the organizations of farmers in the EU and their infl uence on regulations of EU agricultural law

Taking under consideration the increasing importance of social dialog which should contribute to intensify the democratization of decision–making process in EU, the main aim of this article is to present the influence of supranational agricultural professional organizations on the shape of common agricultural policy and agricultural legislation which regulates it. Such organizations were established in the latter half of fifties of the past century to protect and represent interests of different categories of farmers from particular member states (e.g. interests of young farmers, cooperatives or workers in agriculture) on European forum. Among such organizations COPA – Committee of Agricultural Professional Organizations (Comité des Organisations Professionelles Agricoles de l`Union Europénne) is deemed to be the most influential lobbing organization. Within this article there were presented legal conditions which should be fulfilled by supranational agricultural organizations to participate in the mechanisms of social dialog on the EU forum. There were also discussed functions of supranational agricultural professional organizations with special stress on their contribution in the process of making EU law, mainly in the advisory forms. On the background of analysis made in this article, there is picked up an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken by the supranational agricultural organizations in the sphere of agricultural sector.

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