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...

The mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging, embodied in the German Packaging Ordinance of 1991, entered into force in January 2003, after the condition for its implementation was given by the fall of the market share of reusable drinks packaging under 72% in 1997. In this context the...