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Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture (ARMA) is the state institution, which since 1994 has realized programs for support Polish agriculture and rural development. With Polands accession to EU, ARMA became one of the two Polish payment agencies, responsible for IACS and payments based on the system.The author divides activity of ARMA on 3 periods - first, the period of realization only Polish agricultural policy (1994-1998), the second - period of preparation for realization pre-accession Programme SAPARD and preparation for realization CAP (1999-05.2004), and the third - realization of CAP payments (direct payments, payments for rural development) and payments from structural funds.