SIGNIFICANCE OF SUBSIDIES FOR FARMS ACCORDING TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION TYPE AND ECONOMIC CLASS SIZE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES IN 2009

The aim of this article was to state the structure of farms in accordance with the FADN economic class sizes and type of production in different EU countries. The paper presents the level of total subsidies - excluding those on investments (SE605) per 1 ESU of economic size. Economic strength and the type of farming were taken into account. The obtained results show that there was a differentiation between the level of subsidies per ESU and labour unit on farms classified according to the type of farming for classes of varying economic strength. Most types of farming showed a tendency of visible increase in the level of subsidies along with the growth of economic size of farms, although the level of this phenomenon varied.