The work reveals the essence of public regulation in designating the quotes for agricultural activity subjects, paying out the subsidies and direct payments, the system of public regulation institutions is discussed along with the emerging problems while implementing the legal acts. Farmers attitude towards the public regulation of direct payments and administrative legal regulation is analyzed. The author concludes that the public regulation of agricultural quotes is carried out on the basis of objective needs and sticking to the requirements of legal acts. The public regulation in agriculture is associated with certain expectations. In the field of agriculture one evaluates important objectives foreseen in the long-term development strategy and Governmental program: to create the market orientated competitive agriculture, seek for coherent country economical and social development, to rearrange the system of national support for the countryside. The regulation in one or the other aspect is determined by the amount of money the government designates to the agricultural activity subjects in the form of direct payments and subsidies. Quotes regulate the size of production – the optimal quantity of necessary production is determined, and overproduction is limited. In the work the author, using the research results, in the opinion of the specialists, analyses what the practical effect of regulation is, who it succeeded to achieve the aims and tasks of the regulation, how... [to full text]