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...

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One of the most important targets ofthe Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is to facilitatethe spatial integration of agricultural markets within theindividual member states as well as within the Community.On a spatially integrated market, price informationshould freely flow between member states....