| Project: | Developing cross compliance in the EU – background, lessons and opportunities |
| State: | Finished |
| Submitter: | The Fifth Framework Programme of the EU for the period 1998 to 2002 |
| Time of Relevance: | January 2003–March 2005 |
| Brief Summary: | The notion of cross-compliance has so far only been incorporated in EU agricultural policy to a limited degree but there are strong indications that it vill be more extensively applied in future. The project will contribute substantially to developing the intellectual foundations as well as the political and administrative practicalities of its wider aplication at Member State and EU level. In particular the project will:
- lead to a better understanding of the advantages and problems of applying cross-compliance in the CAP framework, in the context of enlargement,
- clarify how cross-compliance might contribute to the achievement of environmental policy objectives, such as those embodied in the Nitrates Directive and Natura 2000,
- develop understanding about the potential link between cross-compliance and other agricultural policy instruments, in particular codes of Good Farming Practice, usual good farming practice (UGFP) and agri-environmental schemes.
There is an expected contribution to increase understanding of how agriculture can contribute to meeting commitments under EU environmental legislation, such as the Birds and Habitats Directives,
Nitrates Directive, Water Framework Directive. |
| Project Objective: | This project is intended to provide EU Member States, Candidate Countries and other institutions and stakeholders with up to date information, the results of relevant research and evolving practical knowledge, to realise the full potential of the cross-compliance instrument for public benefit. |
| Outputs: | There are these outputs:
- preparation, hosting and dissemination of outputs from a series of five pan-European, expert seminars on the key issues relating to an efficient and effective application of cross-complience in the EU,
- production of several research papers as contributions to each seminar and conclusions from them,
- preparation of material for a substantive book on the issue of cross-compliance in the EU which should act as a benchmark and major reference source for future work on the subject, for policy makers, stakeholders and academics.
Seminar „Cross-compliance in Central and Eastern European Countries“ (20–21 September 2004, Prague)
Presentations
Block I
- Bennet, Harriet (Institute for European Environmental Policy, UK): Agriculture and the environment in the UK (pdf, 430 kB)
- Nitsch, Heike – Osterburg, Bernhard (Federal Agriculture Research Center, Germany): Agriculture and Environment – Country report Germany (pdf, 1670 kB)
- Pražan, Jaroslav (Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, Czech Republic): Agriculture and Environment in EU „accession“ countries (pdf, 155 kB)
- Primdahl, Jorgen (Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Denmark): Danish Agriculture and Environmental Issues (pdf, 527 kB)
- Verschuur, Gerwin (CLM, Netherlands): Agriculture systems and environmental problems in the Netherlands (pdf, 91 kB)
Block II
- Balazs, Katalin (Institute of Environmental and Landscape Management, Szent Istvan University, Hungary): Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition in Hungary (pdf, 183 kB)
- Dobíhalová, Karolína (Ministry of Agriculture, Czech Republic): Cross compliance – GAEC in the Czech Republic (pdf, 176 kB)
- Jobda, Marek (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Poland): Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (pdf, 257 kB)
- Lepmets, Eike (Ministry of Agriculture, Estonia): Cross-Compliance – GAEC: Implementation in Estonia (pdf, 121 kB)
- Matečná, Gabriela (Agricultural Paying Agency, Slovakia): GAEC (Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition) (pdf, 2907 kB)
- Nagode, Peter (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, Slovakia): Cross-compliance and Good Farming Practice (pdf, 248 kB)
- Orlovskis, Andris (Ministry of Agriculture, Latvia): Good Agriculture and Environmental Condition in Latvia for 2004 (pdf, 424 kB)
- Hofhanzl, Abraham (Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republik) – Poštulka, Zdeněk (Ministry of the Environment, Czech Republic): Cross Compliancein CEECs – Summary of the Questionnaire (pdf, 1230 kB)
- Hofhanzl, Abraham (Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republik) – Poštulka, Zdeněk (Ministry of the Environment, Czech Republic): Acts – Cross-compliance - GAEC (pdf, 180 kB)
- Jasius, Saulius (Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture, Lithuania) – Zemeckis, Romualdas (Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, Lithuania): Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition in Lithuania (pdf, 111 kB)
Block III
- Kristensen, Lone (Danish Centre for
Forest, Landscape and Planning, Denmark): The Danish Rules of Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (pdf, 68 kB)
- Mary, Laurent (Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Rural Affairs, France): Implementation of GAEC
in France (pdf, 66 kB)
- Povellato, Andrea (Instituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria, Italy): The Implementation Process of Cross-Compliace in Italy (pdf, 119 kB)
- Prinz, Carlo (Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, Germany): GAEC: Progress in implementation in Germany (pdf, 521 kB)
- Swales, Vicky (Institute for European Environmental Policy, UK): Cross compliance in England: Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (pdf, 131 kB)
- Verschuur, Gerwin (CLM, Netherlands): GAEC Development in Netherlands (pdf, 78 kB)
- Vlahos, George (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece): Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions standards in Greece (pdf, 185 kB)
Block IV
- Hejcman, Michal (Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic): Grasslands in the Czech Republic (pdf, 4 437 kB)
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