The introduction of cross-compliancemechanism in the European Union with its 2003 CAP-reformmight affect the costs of production and thuscompetitiveness of the EU. Little evidence is available toasses the costs of compliance with regulations and it implicationfor trade. In this study a farm...

The new EU Animal Health Strategy suggests ashift in emphasis away from control towards preventionand surveillance activities for the management of threatsto animal health. The optimal combination of theseactions will differ among diseases and depend on largelyunknown and uncertain costs and...

Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...