The report is aimed at presenting the key determinants of the EU support towards agriculture in the next programming period. First part of the report presents the basic  macroeconomic conditions influencing the potential for financing the common agricultural policy in the period 2014-2020. The second part is devoted to the discussion of the current rules and the scale of supporting agriculture by the EU member states within the framework of the national state aid. The last part focuses on the Polish  spending on the agricultural sector and potential for reallocating these funds.