Rolnictwo i środowisko w politykach Unii Europejskiej
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2007
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION POLICIES
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The purpose o f the present paper is to confront the policies towards agriculture and
environment in the European Union. Both are indispensable for the human life, both
interact with each other and influence each other. Those relationships may, however, also
trigger off a conflict o f interests. While agricultural activity violates the integrity o f the
natural environment, it is the environment that provides „conditions” necessary for carrying
out that activity, and those are not always favourable or desired.
The development o f environmental regulations within EU agricultural law may be
seen as a historical process. Initially, the few regulations that existed concerned the
structural policy in agriculture. But they developed over time and became much more
extensive. Today, common agricultural policy serves to maintain agricultural activity in rural
areas and to protect the environment from degradation in a manner coherent with
sustainable development.
In the light o f the Community legislation, conflicting interests o f agriculture and
environment may be reconciled where they come in contact, i.e. in rural areas. The urban development mechanisms developed under the common agricultural policy serve to achieve
that goal, as, under the Community legislation, their key objective is preservation o f the
natural environment.
The concern for the maintenance of rural areas and improvement of the environment
is not exhausted in the traditional measures o f the structural policy, but it also links with
every initiative o f the common agricultural policy.
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Przegląd Prawa Rolnego, 2007 Nr 2, s. 46-58.
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978-83-232181-7-3