European Environment Agency Økologisk Forum 8 February 2007 1 Velkommen til Det Europæiske...

1 European Environment AgencyØkologisk Forum 8 February 2007

Velkommen tilDet Europæiske Miljøagentur

(EEA)

• Generel introduktion til EEA,• Oversigt over IRENA projektet,• Aspekter af den fælleseuropæiske

landbrugspolitik.


IRENA Operation

Indicator Reporting on the Integration of Environmental

Concerns into Agricultural Policy


IRENA policy context and partners

• European Council in Cardiff (June 1998);Integration of environmental concerns into all Community policies

• Agriculture Council Integration Strategy (1999);Council of the European Union (1999), Document 13078/99

• “Directions towards sustainable agriculture”;COM(1999) 22 final

• Commission communications on agri-environmental indicators;COM(2000) 20 and COM(2001) 144;

• Joint project between 5 partners:o DG Agricultureo DG Environmento Eurostato Joint Research Centre, Isprao European Environment Agency


Project purpose

• Develop the indicators listed in COM(2001) 144;• Help understand the links between agriculture

and environment in the EU-15 (NUTS 2/3);• Report on the integration of environmental

concerns into EU agricultural policy;• Develop proposals for future AE indicator work

at EU level.


DPSIR framework for agriculture


Outputs of the IRENA operation

• 42 indicator fact sheets + related data sets at regional level (where feasible);

• Indicator report on agriculture and environment in the EU-15;

• Assessment report on the integration of environmental concerns into EU agricultural policy;

• Evaluation report on IRENA operation;• http://webpubs.eea.eu.int/content/irena/index.htm


Organic farming (1)• The area under organic farming reached 3.7% of the

total UAA of EU-15 in 2002, up from only 1.8% in 1998.

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Note: Share of organic farming area (sum of organic and in-conversion area), certified under Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91, in total UAASource: Organic farming questionnaire, DG Agriculture, data treated by Eurostat; ZPA1, Eurostat.


Organic farming (2)• Regional map on the share of organic farming

area in the total UAA in 2000

Source: Community survey on the structure of agricultural holdings (FSS), Eurostat (for some Member States this includes also areas not certified under Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91).


Organic farming (3)• Organic and in-conversion land area in Europe

(EU-25 + CC4 + EFTA-4) reached 6.4 million hectares (2.9 per cent of UAA) on 181,900 holdings in 2004.

• In EU-25 alone over 6 million ha on 155,000 holdings. The trends vary among the individual countries, e.g. organic land area increased in Greece and Austria, whereas it declined in Denmark, Italy and the UK. In Portugal, the increase was over 70 per cent; there were also large increases in some new EU member states, e.g. over 60 per cent in Poland and over 80 percent in Lithuania and Latvia.

Source: Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth: http://www.organic.aber.ac.uk/statistics/europe05.shtml


Organic farming (4)• Organic production accounted for 2% of EU-15

total production of milk and beef in 2001, but less than 1% of total production of cereals and potatoes


Organic farming (5)• Producer prices and price premiums (% over

conventional) for organic milk, beef, cereals and potatoes in EU-15 in 2001

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• Further farm and regional specialisation;• Overall stable level of intensity and generally

more efficient input use;• Total agricultural area declining, share of

organic farming on the increase;• General decrease in gross nutrient balance but

still regionally high surpluses;• Significant pressure on water resources and

soils, particularly in southern Europe;• Farmland biodiversity + landscapes under

threat, but often dependent on agricultural management.

Trends in EU-15 agriculture 1990-2000


Where to go from here?

• EU Commission has published a new Communication on AE indicators; COM(2006)508;

• Focus on a reduced set of indicators to be properly developed;

• Further investment in data collection and analysis is essential;

• Continue cooperation at EU level, with OECD and EU Member States;

• Extend indicators to EU-27 where possible;

• Link indicator work to monitoring of environmental trends as well as agricultural policy development and implementation.


• CAP as only one factor that is driving agricultural trends;

• Lack of reference areas and baselines;• Attempt to analyse policy targeting;• Significant increase in agri-environment

scheme spending and other measures;• Scope for improved targeting of policy

measures on biodiversity-rich areas;• Effective farm nutrient management to be

promoted via appropriate mix of instruments.

Analysing policy integration


• Use of OECD criteria to rank indicators in a consistent way;

• Most indicators classified as ‘useful’ or ‘potentially useful’;

• Insufficient data (at least at regional level);• Links between indicators difficult to show;• Indicators are essential but not sufficient for

environmental reporting;• Evaluate carefully the choice of indicators and

spatial scale of reporting.

Evaluating the indicator framework

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