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In order to better understand the impact of potential measures
to reduce ammonia emissions from Agriculture, the Commission
has launched a service contract (deadline for answers 25/7/2005).
The objective of the contract is to define the most appropriate
integrated and consistent actions to reduce various environmental
impacts (notably water, air, climate change) from agriculture.
Specifically, the objective is to develop and apply a methodology
allowing to assess and quantify the costs and the effects
of various policies and measures aiming at reducing the impact
of agriculture on water, air pollution and climate change.
Both ancillary benefits and trade offs of measures need to
be identified. The impacts and feasibility of the most promising
measures need to be analysed in depth.
The technical annex is available in English
(pdf~260K),
French
(pdf~260K)
and German
(pdf~260K).
The contract has been awarded to a Consortium lead by ALTERRA
(Wageningen - The Netherlands) and including EUROCARE (Bonn
- Germany) and AGROTECHNOLOGY AND FOOD INNOVATIONS (Wageningen
- The Netherlands). The technical part of the awarded offer
is available in EN : Background
- Methodology.
The inception report is available in English
(pdf~224K).
The final report is now available:
A powerpoint presentation
(pdf~1,7Mb)
has also been prepared by the authors of the ALTERRA reports
which summarises the results.
Another service contract has been granted to IIASA in order
to integrate into the RAINS integrated assessment model the
findings of the contract on "integrated measures to reduce
ammonia emissions" as well as the results of an EEA study
on the impact of the CAP reform. Potential impacts of the
recent WTO negociations as well as of the Biomass action plan
will also be analysed. On this basis, additional sensitivity
analysis will be achieved notably in the framework of the
review of the National Emission Directive. The technical annex
of this contract is available form here
(pdf~120K)
The final report is now available
(pdf~612K).
The views presented in the ALTERRA and IIASA reports are
those of the contractors and do not represent those of the
European Commission.
Other useful link:
- JRC has organised in June 2005 a workshop on inventories
and projections of GHG and NH3 emissions form agriculture
in Central and Eastern Europe. More information can be found
with the following link : http://carbodat.ei.jrc.it/
- The Expert Group on Ammonia Abatement of the Gothenburg
Convention has developped a Framework
Advisory Code of Good Agricultural Practice for Reducing
Ammonia Emissions, which is to be used as a basis for
Parties to draw up national codes and to quantify relationships
between recommended control options/techniques and resulting
ammonia emissions. The Expert Group seeks to improve the
quality of ammonia emission inventories, comparing national
inventories, projections and abatement strategies. It considers
review of, and possible revisions to, the Guidance Document
on Control Techniques for Preventing and Abating Emissions
of Ammonia (EB.AIR/1999/2,
chap. V). The Expert Group also seeks to address monitoring
and modelling questions such as the link between ammonia
emission control and the concentrations and deposition of
reduced nitrogen compounds. More information can be found
with the following link : http://www.unece.org/env/aa/welcome.htm
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