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The Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) and the Water Framework Directive (WFD) are two of
the most influential European policies in the area of environmental
issues. Since 2005 the link between both policies is intensively
discussed at the EU level in the Strategic Steering Group on “Water
and agriculture”. The results obtained under the 2005/6 mandate
and the current mandate can be found here:
WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level - Synthesis Report
of the 2005-06 Activity of the SSG on "WFD and Agriculture” 05/12/2006
Final Version
Draft mandate
for the continuation of the activity on “Water Framework Directive
and Agriculture” for 2007-2009
Over
the recent years several papers addressing the various links have
been developed to support the Strategic Steering Group. These papers
can be found here:
WFD
and Agriculture – Linkages at the EU Level. Analysis of the Policy
and Legal Linkages between CAP and WFD [pdf, 273 KB, English]
WFD and Agriculture
– Analysis of the pressures and impacts. Broaden the problem's scope-
Version 6 of 18/10/2006 [pdf, 1.3 MB, English]
WFD
and Agriculture – Linkages at the EU level. Final Report about Rural
Development Programmes [pdf,
377 KB, English]
WFD
and Agriculture – Linkages at the EU Level. Final Report about Cross
Compliance and the WFD [pdf, 641 KB, English]
WFD
and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level. Final Paper about Incentive
Water Pricing and Cost Recovery in the WFD. Elements for Linking
EU Agricultural and Water Policies " [pdf, 571 KB, English]
WFD
and Agriculture – Linkages at the EU Level. Final Paper about Co-operation
and Participation at the Interface of EU Agricultural and Water
Policies [pdf, 344 KB, English]
WFD
and Bioenergy production at the EU Level - A review of the possible
impact of biomass production from agriculture on water
WFD
and Agriculture – Linkages at the EU Level - Beyond 2007: Further
Research Needs at EU level [pdf, 202 KB, English]
The
most recent work resulted in a Catalogue
of Measures that contains information on cost and
effects of different measures to reduce pressures from agriculture
on water
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Since
2005 also a set of conferences have been held. The most important
information can be found here:
Conference
in Paris (20-21 September 2007)
Background
Paper [pdf, 524 KB, English]
Conference
in Vienna (2 – 3 March 2006)
Conference
Script Vienna [pdf,
542 KB, English]
Conference
in London (20-21 September 2005)
The
conference proceedings can be found here
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Since the
start of the WFD Common Implementation strategy Pilot River Basins
(PRBs) have played an important role in the development of Guidance
documents and other policy documents, by testing the implementation.
Within the work programme of PRBs the link between agriculture and
water resources was identified as one of the highest priorities.
Information on the results obtained by the PRBs can be found here
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