Main areas of research

I. Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – legal aspects

• The legal basis for CAP in the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU);
• The relationship between the internal market and the CAP;
• Rules of competition in the agricultural sector;
• State aid in the agricultural sector;
• Direct payments;
• Legal aspects of the functioning of the common organisation of the agricultural markets;
• Structural policy under the CAP – legal context.

II. Food law

• General principles of food law;
• Quantitative restrictions and measures with an equivalent effect in agricultural trade;
• Safeguard clauses in food law;
• New food products;
• Food supplements;
• Food labelling.

III. International agricultural law

• The international trade of agricultural products;
• Agriculture in WTO negotiations;
• The human right to food;
• Food aid and the issue of poverty in international law.

IV. Theory of agricultural law

• The specifics of agricultural legal regulations – theoretical aspects;
• Methods of interpreting agricultural law;
• The legal concept of an agricultural farm;
• Agricultural real estate transactions.