77 th EAAE Seminar / NJF Seminar No. 325, August 17-18, 2001, Helsinki Constraints and perspectives of the Romania’s accession to the EU, within WTO commitments on agriculture D. Giurca and M. A. Rusali 1 Constraints and perspectives of the Romania’s accession to the EU, within WTO commitments on agriculture D. Giurca M. A. Rusali Institute of Agricultural Economics, Academy of Romania Abstract Among the studies undertaken during the last years, the present paper1 underlines a new stage of investigation following a broader approach by examining Romania's existing WTO commitments and the assumed future ones which can result from the next multilateral agreements on agriculture. The study was carried out with a view to anticipating predictable, and therefore avoidable, sensitive points in the forthcoming accession negotiations with the EU. The questions addressed in this study are whether by the assumed year of accession of 2006, Romanian agricultural policy will be constrained by actual and likely future WTO commitments concerning market access, domestic support and export subsidies. • 1 This paper relies mainly on a EU funded project, co-ordinated by Dr. Sofia Davidova (Wye College, University of London, UK) and Dr. Graham Dalton (University of Aberdeen, UK) and supervised at different stages by Prof. Louis Mahé (University of Rènnes, France) and Dr. Lionel Hubbard (University of Newcastle, UK), for which the authors are grateful.