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Abstract
The Health Check (HC) document traces the path for a new revision of the CAP. The
communication content can be summarised in the following points: decoupling at regional
and not at historical level, a more intensive modulation mechanism differentiated according to
the total volume of subsidy received by the farm and a new implementation of the art. 69. The
aim of this paper is to assess the effect of the HC on the farms producing fruits and vegetables
in Italy, with a particular emphasis on the processed tomato production. The model based on
the PMP approach simulates the regionalisation mechanism and the new modulation per
brackets. The analysis carried out on a FADN sample of farms located in Emilia-Romagna
region highlights as the HC new measures affect the farm economic performances but not the
input allocation choice. The flat rate doesn’t produce perturbation in the relative convenience
of the crops maintaining unchanged the degree of substitution among activities. Only when
the CAP mechanism moves from a coupling scenario to a total decoupling one and in the case
of a variation in price levels the modifications inside the production plan are evident.