(Görans Manure management presentation here)

BAAP THE BALTIC SEA AGRICULTURAL RUN-OFF ACTION PROGRAMME

Long term objective o Improve the water quality of the Baltic sea and of local surface and ground water bodies by reducing the leakage surface and ground water bodies by reducing the leakage of nutrients from agriculture of nutrients from agriculture in in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, St. Petersburg and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad Regions Kaliningrad Regions

Short term objectives o Increased environmental awareness amongst farmers, agricultural advisors, teachers and authorities etc. agricultural advisors, teachers and authorities etc. o Establish demonstration sites for sustainable agriculture o Establish monitoring of nutrient load from selected watersheds watersheds o Establish country task groups on agro-environmental issues issues

The Baltic Sea Joint Comprehensive Environmental Action Programme (JCP) was established in 1992 to facilitate and monitor the elimination of the 132 most polluting sources within the Baltic Sea catchment area – known as "hot-spots". Swedish contribution to the JCP:- BAAP I (1993 – 1997) o 25 million SEK from the Swedish Government BAAP II (1998 – 2002) o 25 million SEK from the Swedish International Development and Co-operation Agency (Sida) and Co-operation Agency (Sida) Local co-financing Local co-financing

The 1990s - a decade of change for farming in the Baltic states A crucial change in agriculture in the Baltic Sea region during the 1990s has been the reintroduction of private ownership of farmland in countries in transition between the centrally-planned economy and the market economy. Through the 1990s prices for agricultural products remained low, while production costs were high. Agricultural production decreased overall, resulting in smaller production units, and substantial reductions in the use of inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides. In the future, however, significant reconstruction of the agricultural sector is to be expected, and increases in productivity are expected. BAAP aimed to help its Baltic partners in transition and give assistance to ensure that environmentally sustainable agricultural practices are adopted.

A first priority was to see that each partner had its own Codes of Good Agricultural Practice (= Best Management Practice) These are required for each Candidate country in order to comply with the Nitrate Directive. Each BAAP partner (except N.W. Russia) now has its own CGAP, see them on

From the EU Nitrate Directive 91/676/EEC the EU Nitrate Directive 91/676/EECthe EU Nitrate Directive 91/676/EEC Article 4 1.With the aim of providing for all waters a general level of protection against pollution, Member States shall, within a two-year period following the notification of this Directive: a) establish a code or codes of good agricultural practice, to be implemented by farmers on a voluntary basis, which should contain provisions covering at least the items mentioned in Annex II A; b) set up where necessary a programme, including provision of training and information for farmers, promoting the application of the code(s) of good agricultural practice. 2. Member States shall submit to the Commission details of their codes of good agricultural practice and the Commission shall include information on these codes in the report referred to in Article 11. In the light of the information received, the Commission may, if it considers it necessary, make appropriate proposals to the Council. considers it necessary, make appropriate proposals to the Council.

Annex II CODE(S) OF GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE A code or codes of good agricultural practice with the objective A code or codes of good agricultural practice with the objective of reducing pollution by nitrates and taking account of conditions in the different regions of the Community should certain provisions covering the following items, in so far as they are relevant: 1.periods when the land application of fertilizer is inappropriate; 2.the land application of fertilizer to steeply sloping ground; ground; 3.the land application of fertilizer to water-saturated, flooded, frozen or snow-covered ground; flooded, frozen or snow-covered ground;

4.the conditions for land application of fertilizer near water courses; 5.the capacity and construction of storage vessels for livestock manures, including measures to prevent water pollution by run-off and seepage into the groundwater and surface water of liquids containing livestock manures and effluents from stored plant materials such as silage; 6.procedures for the land application, including rate and uniformity of spreading, of both chemical fertilizer and livestock manure, that will maintain nutrient losses to water at an acceptable level.