The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan....

Nachdem die Mehrwegquote im Bereich der Getränkeverpackungen im Jahr 1997 unter den in der Verpackungsverordnung festgeschriebenen Referenzwert von 72 % abgesunken war, bestand umweltpolitischer Handlungsbedarf. Um dieser unerwünschten Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken, wurde am 1. Januar 2003 in...

Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes, increasing attention is...