Adding Croatia to the EU and updating baseline sugar policy assumptions (Croatia2013)
Funding
European Commission - Joint Reserach Centre (JRC)
Duration
Summer 2013 - Spring 2014
Organisation
Consortium ENgAGE (Expert Network for Agro-Economic modelling) represented by LEI, institute within the legal entity Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek, Wageningen. Active members of the team were:
EuroCARE GmbH
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
Universität Hohenheim
Overview
The project aims to calibrate the CAPRI model to the latest DG Agri baseline which includes Croatia as part of the EU-28 to facilitate calibration work and trade-related policy impact assessments with the CAPRi model.
More concrete objectives are the following:
to be able to adequately simulate market and political effects after the EU enlargement in 2013 with the accession of Croatia
aggregation of the new common market and trade bloc of the EU-28
extending EU Common Agricultural Policy towards Croatia
extending EU biofuels policy towards Croatia
update assumptions for EU baseline sugar policy in relation to the abandonment of sugar quotas before 2020
