3rd Workshop on GAECs: management, control and impact assessment
Amphitheatre – Joint Research Centre - Ispra, Italy
26-28 June 2006
AGENDA
Opening session
- Welcome
- Introduction to the workshop
Session 1: GAECs management and control – technical concerns
- Technical recommendation and Summary statistics 2006
- Control of some GAECs with the support of RS in Hungary
- Soil erosion modelling
- Precision farming: using remote sensing to manage application of Nitrogen
- Field indicators for cross compliance
- Winter cover – encroachment of vegetation detection using eCognition
Session 2: Permanent Pasture concerns
- Concerns about Permanent Pasture ratio monitoring
- Strategies by Member States to monitor and control permanent pastures
- Control of border zones between agricultural and natural lands
Session 3: Communication to farmers
- Communication to farmers procedure in Sweden
- Communication to farmers procedure in Northern Ireland
- Communication to farmers procedure in Netherland
- Communication to farmers via Web in Slovenia
Session 4: Ex Ante impact assessment of agriculture related policies
- Water related issues and GAECs
- Environmental impact assessment
- Approaches to assessing the environmental impacts of Cross Compliance in the EU
- Sustainable use of pesticides in Lombardia Region (Italy)
- How to compare good farming practices at catchment scale
- Environmental impact assessment of farming activities: modelling and monitoring
Session 5: GAECs implementation
- Success and difficulties to implement GAECs in Austria
- Success and difficulties to implement of GAECs in Scotland
- Future implementation of GAECs in Romania
- Issues on eligibility and GAECs
- GAECs implementation in Member States
- Round table - Discussion - Future prospects related to Cross Compliance
Closing session
- Round table
- Synthesis and Conclusions