Twinning Light project EE03IBTWPAGR06 Preparation of advisory services to assist farmers to access E

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Twinning Light project EE03-IB-TWP-AGR-06
Preparation of advisory services to assist
farmers to access EU funded rural development
measures

• COMPARISON OF CGAP, GFP, SMR GAEC
• by
• Henning Lyngsø Foged
• hlf_at_lr.dk

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Comparison of different policy instruments

• The following measures are instruments in the
  enforcement of EUs agri-environmental policies
• Code of Good Agricultural Practices (CGAP)
• Common Standards of Good Farming Practice (GFP)
• Statutory Management Requirements (SMR) and
• Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition
  (GAEC)

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There is a need to deploy policy instruments
Cases of non-conformity with EU environmental
legislation in Member States at 31.12.2003
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Code of Good Agricultural practices

• The CGAP was made a compulsory requirement in the
  Nitrates Directive of 1991. There are 10 points
  relating to livestock manure management practices
  that the CGAP as a minimum must set standards
  for, for instance
• 5. the capacity and construction of storage
  vessels for livestock manures, including measures
  to prevent water pollution by run-off and seepage
  into the groundwater and surface water of liquids
  containing livestock manures and effluents from
  stored plant materials such as silage
• It also require the member states to designate
  nitrate vulnerable zones, in which the CGAP is
  mandatory for the farmers.

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CGAP designated Nitrate Vulnerable Zones in
Estonia
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Common Standards of Good Farming Practice

• Determined by Council Regulation 1257/1999
  (provisons concerning suport for rural
  development under the EAGGF), that member states
  have to formulate good farm practice standards
  in their Rural Development Plan 2004-2006.
• The standards determined in the Estonian RDP
  relates to water, soil, plant and grassland
  protection, as well as Biological and landscape
  diversity, Animal welfare, Integrated Pollution
  Prevention and Control, Use of sludge, Animal
  identification and medicine use registration.

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Statutory Management Requirements (SMR)

• 18 EU directives in the area of nature,
  agri-environment, food saftey and animal welfare

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Good Agriculture and Environment Condition (GAEC)

• Region-wise determined measures, the farmers must
  observe concerning minimum standards for land
  management

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Conclusion

• The various policy instruments are with
  increasing emphasis enforcing EUs policies

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... for agricultural production respecting
environmental, food safety and animal welfare
standards