Rural development and water quality target
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Transcript Rural development and water quality target
agriculture and environment
measures – working towards
sustainable agriculture
Paul Speight
European Commission
DG Environment
Unit Agriculture & Soil
Env law pushing towards sust
agriculture
Pesticide Framework Directive
Nitrates Directive
Water Framework Directive
Natura 2000
What is in common?
Flexible but clear approach
Prevention better than cure...
Allow room for more ambition
MS support built in (action plans and so on)
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Pesticide FD as an example
Integrated pest management
(obligatory by 2014)
Focussed on preventing damage
before it occurs
Room for more ambition - crop specific
IPM for example
Support from MS built in –national
action plans
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Integrated Pest Management
Promotion of low pesticide-input pest management
Establishment or support of necessary conditions for the
implementation of IPM:
Tools for pest monitoring
Tools for decision-making and advisory services
General principles of IPM (see Annex III) - Guidelines
coming – three pillar structure
Prevention – crop rotation etc
Action only when needed and at the right time – monitoring
etc
Right type of action – advice on PPP etc
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Rural development + agri-env
measures in particular, supports
env law
Rural
Development
2007-2013
« LEADER » Axis (>5%)
Axis 1
Axis 2
Axis 3
Competitiveness
Environment
+
Land
Management
Economic
Diversification
+
Quality of Life
(> 10%)
(> 25%)
(> 10%)
Single set of programming, financing, monitoring, auditing rules
Single Rural Development Fund (EARFD)
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RD measures of relevance for env
Training
Agri-environment
Farm Advisory
System
Agro-forestry
Env
Meeting Standards
Farm
modernisation
Develop. of agric.&
forest infrastructure
Forest-env.
payments
Payments linked to
Directive 2000/60 &
NATURA 2000
Afforestation
LFA
Natural disaster&
prevention actions
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Agri-environment
Main objectives: improvements and maintenance
of the environment
The only compulsory RD measure
Commitments going beyond the AE baseline,
AE Baseline = cross compliance + minimum
requirements for fertiliser and PPP use + other
relevant mandatory national requirements
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Riparian buffer strips – one concrete example
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buffer strips – potential for synergies in
action
Nitrates directive – in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones.
No application of fertiliser near water courses.
Legislation already in place.
Water Framework Directive –
Measures operational by October 2012;
no explicit buffer strip obligations
but likely to be needed
in many cases to achieve
required water quality
Cross compliance GAEC –
Introduction by 1/1/2012.
Pesticides Framework Directive
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What instruments could be used
to do this?
Either legal provisions
e.g. through Pesticide FD implementation
Or MS could use incentive payments (agri-environment or
related state aids).
e.g. MS/regions could introduce an agri-environmental
measure to pay farmers not to farm their GAEC buffer
strips at all, to protect water; and why not add an extra
payment to plant the strips with wildlife enhancing plants,
to protect biodiversity? Great opportunity to do this with
modulation money from CAP Health Check.
A good solution would be to use both compulsory and
voluntary approaches in combination.
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Next Steps?
Commissioner Potočnik set out some
views in his speech last week
(available on RAPID)
Clear that the future of the CAP
extremely important for the European
environment
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