Agriculture and environmetal protection in Serbia with the prospect of harmonization to the common agricultural policy of European Union

Abstract

Permanent technical and technological innovations in agriculture, as a result of the 'Green Revolution', have increased the use of chemical inputs and have caused numeros of negative environmental effects. More emphasis on the agri-environment policies European union (EU) has given since the last decade of the twentieth century. The reform of The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 1992. - MacSharry reform and, later, Agenda 2000, CAP reforms in 2003, 'Health check' in 2008., and new reforms of CAP gives more emphasis on the integration of agricultural and environmental policies. In future, the support for agriculture will be based on decoupled direct aids, which will have the role of 'greening' the European agriculture, while rural development policy will maintain its prominence. With the prospect of the accession of Serbia to the EU, the elaboration and implementation of agri-environment measures and explicit requirements for farmers to use agrienvironment measures become highly important.

Keywords

• agriculture
• agricultural and rural policy
• environment
• agri-environment measures