Workshop on Cross-Compliance: management, control, advisory support and impact assessment

Casa Don Guanella, Barza di Ispra, Italy

2-4 October 2007

Agenda

Session: Assessment tools linked to the control of environmental SMRs

• Welcome/Introduction to the workshop
• Harmonized Evaluation of Europe's Agri-Env Schemes - The Agri-Environmental Footprint Index (AFI)- it's potential for CC Control
• Cross Compliance Assessment tool -CCAT experience
• Implementation and controls of Cross Compliance
• Birdlife findings on CC standards and enforcement
• Implementation and control of Suisse agricultural Policy
• Environmental SMRs control: possible methods and scale problems in Italy
• RS assessment tool of environmental indicators - regional aspects for control

Session: Cross compliance

• GAECs control and RS
• The challenge of GAEC analysis and monitoring: the Italian approach
• Set-up of GAECs and GAECs control with RS in Croatia
• Use of radar images for checking parcel coverage during winter
• State of play of the discussion at EU level
• Online access to the GAECs database
• Main findings from the evaluation of the implementation of cross compliance

Annex IV Round Table

• Some concerns on the Annex IV
• Discussion

Permanent pasture ratio Round table

• Concerns of the implementation of Permanent pasture ratio
• Bio-fuel crops pressure on PP
• Permanent Pasture Ratio : Experiences in Flanders
• Discussion 

Session: FAS

• Presentation of FAS questionnaire results (EC, Vincenzo Angileri)
• Description of FAS implementation in NL (NL, Gijs Van Leeuwen)
• Agricultural Advisors Competencies (AAC) Project – aims and outputs (CZ, AAC project, Zdenka Marešová, )
• Qualification system of advisors and selection of advisory bodies in Estonia (EE, Hanna Kreen)
• ScFAS project (AT, Walter Di Mayer) 
• A Framework For Operationalisation Of FAS (NL, Tamme Van DerWal, Arno Krause) 
• Questions on FAS

Closing Session

• Summary of discussions
• Conclusions next workshop