L'application de là directive communautaire en République Fédérale d'Allemagne

In 1970, a program for encouragement and for complementary social aid to the farms (EFP) was published and implemented in FRG to allow for a better allocation of factors : land, labour and capital. Published in april 1972, the community instruction DME, relative to the modernization of farms, finds in part its inspiration in the EFP. The purpose is to encourage the farm units «capable of development» : their head is mainly farmer, he is an adequate manager, he has received a professionnal education (or experience) of at least 3 years, and he knows how to hold an accounting over 1 0 years. The author gives a brief overview of the present apparatus aimed at inducing individual farms of FRG to invest more. A few data are supplied about the actual implementation of that program in FRG. In the conclusion is mentionned the change in the public opinion of FRG with respect to that matter. Development capability is no longer accepted as a criterion for incentive. The desired aid could be a subsidy on interest rate open to everybody. In other respects, before anything else it is suitable to improve the balance of agricultural markets, would it be through strongly reducing investment incentives for individual farms (in particular for livestock).