Agriculture exerts a considerable influence on the environment, both positive and negative. It currently accounts for approximately half of the land area of the EU-27, and the cultivation needed to achieve its primary purpose – the production of materials for food, fibre and fuel – has impacts on the functioning of natural systems and the availability of natural resources.
- An introduction to EU environmental policy
- The EU institutions
- The EU agencies
- EU decision-making processes
- Environment in the Treaties
- The Sixth Environmental Action Programme and the Thematic Strategies
- The Sustainable Development Strategy, the Lisbon Strategy, and the Europe 2020 Strategy
- Environmental policy integration in the EU
- Environmental policy instruments
- Approaches to pollution control
- Implementation and enforcement of legislation
- International conventions
- Networking to support implementation
- Overview of EU policy: Air quality
- Air quality framework
- National emission ceilings
- Emissions from vehicles
- Volatile organic compounds from petrol
- Quality of petrol and diesel
- Sulphur content of certain liquid fuels
- Emissions and noise from pleasure boats
- Related legislation: Air quality
- International conventions and cooperation: Air quality
- Historical legislation: Lead in petrol
- Historical legislation: Nitrogen dioxide
- Historical legislation: Ozone
- Historical legislation: Smoke and sulphur dioxide
- Historical legislation: Exchange of information
- Historical legislation: Lead
- Overview of EU policy: Climate change
- Effort sharing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Emissions trading
- Monitoring and limiting greenhouse gases
- CO from passenger cars
- Emission Performance Standards for Light Commercial Vehicles
- Energy taxation
- Fluorinated greenhouse gases
- Promotion of electricity from renewable sources
- Promotion of the use of biofuels or other renewable fuels for transport
- Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
- Combined heat and power
- Use of carbon capture and storage
- Energy end-use efficiency and energy services
- Energy performance of buildings
- Energy using products
- Energy labelling
- Intelligent Energy - Europe
- Adapting to climate change
- Related legislation: Climate change
- International conventions and cooperation: Climate change
- Overview of EU policy: Industrial pollution
- Industrial Emissions
- Integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC)
- Major-accident hazards (COMAH)
- Large combustion plants
- Waste incineration
- Titanium dioxide
- Volatile organic compounds from industry
- Eco-management and audit (EMAS)
- The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
- Related legislation: Industrial pollution
- International conventions: Industrial pollution
- Historical legislation in Emissions from industrial plants
- Historical legislation in Municipal waste incineration
- Historical legislation in Hazardous waste incineration
- Overview of EU policy: Water and marine
- Water Framework Directive
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- Groundwater
- Quality standards for water
- Urban waste water treatment
- Nitrates from agricultural sources
- Detergents
- Bathing water
- Drinking water
- Floods
- Water scarcity and droughts
- Oil pollution at sea
- Dangerous substances in water
- The Shellfish Waters Directive
- The Freshwater Fish (Fishlife) Directive
- The European Union Water Initiative
- Related legislation: Water and marine
- International conventions and cooperation: Water
- International conventions and cooperation: Marine
- Historical legislation: Surface water for drinking
- Historical legislation: Exchange of information
- Overview of EU policy: Waste
- Waste Framework Directive
- Shipment of waste
- Hazardous waste
- Landfill
- The Waste Statistics Regulation
- Mining Waste
- Ship-generated waste
- Disposal of waste oils
- Sewage sludge
- Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
- Related legislation: Waste
- International conventions and cooperation: Waste
- Overview of EU policy: Resource use
- Integrated Product Policy
- Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy (SCP-SIP) Action Plan
- Eco-labelling
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Batteries and accumulators
- End-of-life vehicles
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Hazardous substances in electrical/electronic equipment (ROHS)
- Related legislation: Resource use
- International conventions and cooperation: Resource use
- Overview of EU policy: Chemicals
- Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)
- Classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances and mixtures
- Inland transport of dangerous goods
- Maritime transport of dangerous goods
- Export and import of dangerous chemicals
- Asbestos
- Substances depleting the ozone layer
- Authorization and marketing of plant protection products
- Maximum residue levels of pesticides
- Sustainable use of pesticides
- Authorization and marketing of biocides
- Safety standards for radiation
- Shipment of radioactive substances and waste
- Emergency food protection
- Related legislation: Chemicals
- International conventions and cooperation: Chemicals (hazardous substances and pesticides)
- International conventions and cooperation: Chemicals (radioactivity)
- Historical legislation: Restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations
- Historical legislation: Testing existing chemicals
- Historical legislation: Screening for lead
- Overview of EU policy: Biodiversity
- Birds and their habitats
- Habitats and species conservation
- Trade in endangered species (CITES)
- Genetically modified micro-organisms: Contained use
- Genetically modified organisms: Deliberate release
- Genetically modified organisms: Food and feed
- Genetically modified organisms: Traceability and labelling
- Genetically modified organisms: Transboundary movements
- Related legislation: Biodiversity policy
- Biodiversity: International conventions and cooperation
- Historical legislation: Whales
- Overview of EU policy: Noise
- Assessment and management of noise
- Cars, buses, lorries and trains
- Motorcycles
- Tractors
- Aircraft
- Outdoor equipment
- Noise in the workplace
- Household appliances
- Related legislation: Noise
- Historical legislation: Outdoor equipment
- Overview of EU policy: Supporting policy
- Environmental impact assessment
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Environmental crime
- Public participation
- Access to information
- Environmental liability
- Access to Community institutions and bodies
- Environmental inspections
- Historical legislation: Information on the state of the environment (CORINE)
- Historical legislation: Environmental statistics
- Overview of EU policy: Funding instruments
- Structural and Cohesion Funds
- LIFE+
- European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
- European Fisheries Fund
- Civil Protection from Disasters
- European Union Solidarity Fund
- The Seventh Research and Technology Development Framework Programme
- The Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme
- Sectoral policies key to the environment
- Agriculture
- Land degradation and protection
- Forestry
- Fisheries
- Maritime policy
- Energy
- Transport
- Trade
- International development
- Proposed policy developments
- Anticipated policy developments
- Index of legislation
Agriculture
- Journal:
- Manual of European Environmental Policy
- ISSN:
- 1467-0445
- E-ISSN:
- 1740-3529
- Publisher:
- Earthscan, London, UK
- DOI:
- 10.3763/meep.2010.0177
- Author:
- Institute for European Environmental Policy
- Information last updated:
- December 2011
- Publication date:
- December 2011
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- An introduction to EU environmental policy
- The EU institutions
- The EU agencies
- EU decision-making processes
- Environment in the Treaties
- The Sixth Environmental Action Programme and the Thematic Strategies
- The Sustainable Development Strategy, the Lisbon Strategy, and the Europe 2020 Strategy
- Environmental policy integration in the EU
- Environmental policy instruments
- Approaches to pollution control
- Implementation and enforcement of legislation
- International conventions
- Networking to support implementation
- Overview of EU policy: Air quality
- Air quality framework
- National emission ceilings
- Emissions from vehicles
- Volatile organic compounds from petrol
- Quality of petrol and diesel
- Sulphur content of certain liquid fuels
- Emissions and noise from pleasure boats
- Related legislation: Air quality
- International conventions and cooperation: Air quality
- Historical legislation: Lead in petrol
- Historical legislation: Nitrogen dioxide
- Historical legislation: Ozone
- Historical legislation: Smoke and sulphur dioxide
- Historical legislation: Exchange of information
- Historical legislation: Lead
- Overview of EU policy: Climate change
- Effort sharing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Emissions trading
- Monitoring and limiting greenhouse gases
- CO from passenger cars
- Emission Performance Standards for Light Commercial Vehicles
- Energy taxation
- Fluorinated greenhouse gases
- Promotion of electricity from renewable sources
- Promotion of the use of biofuels or other renewable fuels for transport
- Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
- Combined heat and power
- Use of carbon capture and storage
- Energy end-use efficiency and energy services
- Energy performance of buildings
- Energy using products
- Energy labelling
- Intelligent Energy - Europe
- Adapting to climate change
- Related legislation: Climate change
- International conventions and cooperation: Climate change
- Overview of EU policy: Industrial pollution
- Industrial Emissions
- Integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC)
- Major-accident hazards (COMAH)
- Large combustion plants
- Waste incineration
- Titanium dioxide
- Volatile organic compounds from industry
- Eco-management and audit (EMAS)
- The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
- Related legislation: Industrial pollution
- International conventions: Industrial pollution
- Historical legislation in Emissions from industrial plants
- Historical legislation in Municipal waste incineration
- Historical legislation in Hazardous waste incineration
- Overview of EU policy: Water and marine
- Water Framework Directive
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- Groundwater
- Quality standards for water
- Urban waste water treatment
- Nitrates from agricultural sources
- Detergents
- Bathing water
- Drinking water
- Floods
- Water scarcity and droughts
- Oil pollution at sea
- Dangerous substances in water
- The Shellfish Waters Directive
- The Freshwater Fish (Fishlife) Directive
- The European Union Water Initiative
- Related legislation: Water and marine
- International conventions and cooperation: Water
- International conventions and cooperation: Marine
- Historical legislation: Surface water for drinking
- Historical legislation: Exchange of information
- Overview of EU policy: Waste
- Waste Framework Directive
- Shipment of waste
- Hazardous waste
- Landfill
- The Waste Statistics Regulation
- Mining Waste
- Ship-generated waste
- Disposal of waste oils
- Sewage sludge
- Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
- Related legislation: Waste
- International conventions and cooperation: Waste
- Overview of EU policy: Resource use
- Integrated Product Policy
- Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy (SCP-SIP) Action Plan
- Eco-labelling
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Batteries and accumulators
- End-of-life vehicles
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Hazardous substances in electrical/electronic equipment (ROHS)
- Related legislation: Resource use
- International conventions and cooperation: Resource use
- Overview of EU policy: Chemicals
- Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)
- Classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances and mixtures
- Inland transport of dangerous goods
- Maritime transport of dangerous goods
- Export and import of dangerous chemicals
- Asbestos
- Substances depleting the ozone layer
- Authorization and marketing of plant protection products
- Maximum residue levels of pesticides
- Sustainable use of pesticides
- Authorization and marketing of biocides
- Safety standards for radiation
- Shipment of radioactive substances and waste
- Emergency food protection
- Related legislation: Chemicals
- International conventions and cooperation: Chemicals (hazardous substances and pesticides)
- International conventions and cooperation: Chemicals (radioactivity)
- Historical legislation: Restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations
- Historical legislation: Testing existing chemicals
- Historical legislation: Screening for lead
- Overview of EU policy: Biodiversity
- Birds and their habitats
- Habitats and species conservation
- Trade in endangered species (CITES)
- Genetically modified micro-organisms: Contained use
- Genetically modified organisms: Deliberate release
- Genetically modified organisms: Food and feed
- Genetically modified organisms: Traceability and labelling
- Genetically modified organisms: Transboundary movements
- Related legislation: Biodiversity policy
- Biodiversity: International conventions and cooperation
- Historical legislation: Whales
- Overview of EU policy: Noise
- Assessment and management of noise
- Cars, buses, lorries and trains
- Motorcycles
- Tractors
- Aircraft
- Outdoor equipment
- Noise in the workplace
- Household appliances
- Related legislation: Noise
- Historical legislation: Outdoor equipment
- Overview of EU policy: Supporting policy
- Environmental impact assessment
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Environmental crime
- Public participation
- Access to information
- Environmental liability
- Access to Community institutions and bodies
- Environmental inspections
- Historical legislation: Information on the state of the environment (CORINE)
- Historical legislation: Environmental statistics
- Overview of EU policy: Funding instruments
- Structural and Cohesion Funds
- LIFE+
- European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
- European Fisheries Fund
- Civil Protection from Disasters
- European Union Solidarity Fund
- The Seventh Research and Technology Development Framework Programme
- The Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme
- Sectoral policies key to the environment
- Agriculture
- Land degradation and protection
- Forestry
- Fisheries
- Maritime policy
- Energy
- Transport
- Trade
- International development
- Proposed policy developments
- Anticipated policy developments
- Index of legislation