WFD and Agriculture: Spatial Data Management in the Guadalquivir Pilot River Basin.

Abstract

This workshop was jointly organised by the European Commission - DG JRC, the Gembloux Agricultural University (Belgium), the Wallonia Business House for EUROPE (AWEX) (Belgium), the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (Belgium) - and the European Commission - DG Enlargement - TAIEX. It happened in the framework of the JRCs Action 2153 on Integration of Environmental Concerns into Agriculture in support of creating communication platforms with and amongst Balkan countries and Turkey in the field of agriculture and environment. With more than a hundred participants, mostly from accession and (potential) candidate countries but also Ministry officials from the EU25 and representatives of relevant FP6-funded research projects as experts, the one-day networking workshop covered several aspects of agricultural and environmental policy integration including the following: the EU Acquis and driving instruments for integration, agricultural policies, agri-environmental planning and implementation - regional experiences, support to agri-environmental policies and farmers, and, management of agriculture and water resources. Spain participates in this workshop with the Guadalquivir Pilot River Basin.

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Workshop “Agriculture and Environment in the Balkans and Turkey Networking Regional Experience”. Gembloux. 2006.
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