Develop a system that will allow disbursements of expected future EU structural funds through rural financial institutions. Discontinue the credit guarantee operations of ARR, ARMA and APA, in favor of one transparent program operated by an accredited financial institution. The Minister is at the same time one of three deputy premiers. In hindsight it may be questioned whether sunset policies for APA, ARMA and ARR, included in their acts of establishment, would not have been preferable over the current open ended existence. The extension service was essentially recreated with a dual emphasis, on technical matters and on business matters.
Important institutions remain dependent on, often foreign, off-budget resources for their existence.
This keeps them sometimes de-facto out of the mainstream of agriculture policy making and development. The MAFE has taken an important initiative in 1996, to restructure the curricula of the agricultural high schools so as to make it more relevant to contemporary conditions. The agricultural research establishment, notably government's 42 breeding farms, maintains institutions and practices that appear archaic but that may still be appropriate given the archaic nature of production and landholding of the vast majority of Polish farms. Modification of institutions dealing with the EU and changes in practices and methods of operation in step with structural changes in production and landholding. This is of particular importance in view of the upcoming negotiations for EU membership.