Farm
Advisory System
The legal framework of the FAS is defined by the
Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September
2003.
“In order to help farmers to meet the standards of modern, high-quality
agriculture, it is necessary that Member States establish a comprehensive system
offering advice on land and farm management to commercial farms”.
By January 2007, EU Member States shall set up a “Farm Advisory System” operated
by one or more designated authorities or by private bodies.
Farmers will participate in the farm advisory system on a voluntary basis, with
a priority for those who receive important direct payments (15000 euros of direct
annual payments).
“The farm advisory system should help farmers to become more aware of material
flows and on-farm processes relating to the environment, food safety, animal
health and welfare without in any way affecting their obligation and responsibility
to respect those standards.”
See: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_270/l_27020031021en00010069.pdf
Discussion Forum
on Agricultural Information Management Standards
This is a forum established for discussing metadata
standards and the development of multilingual thesauri
and ontologies.
Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES) is the metadata standard developed
by FAO for the description and discovery of agricultural information resources.
This standard is an extension of Dublin Core and its utility rests in the fact
that it promotes the use of metadata elements/schemes/refinements that are important
for the description of information resources in the domain of Agriculture.
An ontology takes this conceptual framework one step further by structuring the
terms more formally, and by providing richer relationships between concepts than
what is currently provided in thesauri. In response to such a new approach to
managing vocabularies, WAICENT has issued a Concept Note for the development
of an Agricultural Ontology Service / Concept Server (AOS/CS).
Join the discussion forum :
http://www.dgroups.org/groups/fao/agstandards/index.cfm?op=dsp_join
Browse the email archives : http://www.dgroups.org/groups/fao/agstandards/
Contact: Gauri SALOKHE
Email: Gauri.Salokhe(a)fao.org
EC-US
on Innovative Technologies for Increasing Food Safety
in the Fork-to-Farm Chain
In the context of the fork-to-farm approach,
the concept of food traceability has
been widened to include not only the origin and processing
history of food and its ingredients along the chain,
but also the identification and prioritisation of
the chain links in terms of risk and the tracing back
to the point of entry, origin and fate of contaminants
and pathogens once they have been detected at a given
point in the chain.
It was in
this context of a workshop on Innovative technologies
for increasing food safety along the fork-to-farm chain.
This workshop was held in Brussels on 24 and 25 January
2005.
The texts are available
at :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/agriculture/events/us-eu_workshop_jan05_en.html
Mise
en œuvre de la nouvelle PAC : à consulter
au Journal Officiel de l’Union européenne
le règlement
(CE) n o 1974/2004 de la Commission du 29 octobre
2004. Ce texte modifie le règlement
(CE) n o 795/2004 du 21 avril 2004 portant
modalités
d'application du régime de paiement unique prévu
par le titre III du règlement
(CE) n o 1782/2003 du Conseil du 29 septembre
2003 établissant
des règles communes pour les régimes de
soutien direct dans le cadre de la politique agricole
commune et établissant certains régimes
de soutien en faveur des agriculteurs.
A
noter également la publication du règlement (CE)
n o 1973/2004 de la Commission du 29 octobre 2004 portant
modalités d'application du règlement (CE)
no 1782/2003 du Conseil en ce qui concerne les
régimes d'aide prévus aux titres IV
et IV bis dudit règlement et l'utilisation
de terres mises en jachère pour la production
de matières premières.
Note
conjointe de la DGCCRF et de la DGAl sur l'application
de la traçabilité dans
le cadre du règlement
(CE) n° 178/2002 :
http://www.agriculture.gouv.fr/spip/ressources.publicationsofficielles.lebulletinofficiel_r66.html
Agri-environment
Measures - Overview on General Principles, Types of
Measures, and Application
An early overview on agri-environmental measures applied
in the 2000-2006 Rural Development programming period
See: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/reports/agrienv/index_en.htm
MAE "rotations"
L’arrêté,
publié au Journal
officiel du 19 janvier (JORF n° 15 du 19 janvier
2005 page 924) préciseles notions de "couvert
environnemental" (articles 1 à 3 de l’arrêté,
ainsi que son annexe I) et d’"obligation de
diversité des cultures" (article 4 et
annexe II) : http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=AGRP0500059A
BCAE en France
Mise
en œuvre de la nouvelle PAC : les "Bonnes
Conditions Agricoles et Environnementales"
Dossier
du ministère
de l'Agriculture
UAID
(Unique Area/Address Identification)…
…is
a patented concept whereby any piece of land on earth
can be identified by a twenty-two character text string,
for example "32U27C74QDR527SL4Q1K4D". This means
that any property (house, factory, place, lake, apartment,
field, forest etc.) can have a relatively short address
for insertion into databases, bar-coding, labelling
etc.
See: http://www.uaid.org/
Online news and trading
service for farmers in Spain
GIS and CAP in Spain: SIGPAC
allows users to search their parcels and to get digitalized
images of their parcels
See: http://sigpac.mapa.es/fega/visor/
Open discussions and polls by Spain's farmers about
SIGPAC
See: http://www.agroterra.com/foro
See: http://www.agroterra.com
Contact: Juan Martínez Climent
E-mail: juanmc@agrosfera.com
