By joining the EU, Slovakia, along with other nine European countries joined the common European economic area with all the rights and obligations arising from this process. We had to adopt all policies (strategies), which were already common to older EU Member States. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the most important and highly sensitive areas to bind a large amount of financial funds which are shared by all current EU members. In order for disclosure of these financial resources for the new Member States, the CAP had to be at the time of our accession to the EU reformed again. CAP reform of June 2003 introduced a new system of Single Farm Payment and cancelled interconnection support to production. Providing single payments was conditional on compliance with basic hygiene, veterinary and environmental criteria. Currently, the next CAP reform is processing for the 2014 – 2020 European strategy.