In the fifty years since the foundation of the European Community, Europe has evolved in many fields. From being exclusively concerned with economic integration ? reflected by policies to increase agricultural productivity and improvement of intra-communitarian trade ?, nowadays, the European...

It is clear that the successful management of water resources must take into account the influence of policies affecting the irrigated agriculture sector. Among these, the importance of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is well recognised. In...