@article{Schou:136527,
      recid = {136527},
      author = {Schou, Jesper S. and Rygnestad, Hild},
      title = {Cross-Compliance policies and EU Agriculture: Missing All  The Targets at the Same Time?},
      address = {1996-01},
      number = {408-2016-25472},
      pages = {18},
      year = {1996},
      abstract = {After the 1992 Common Agricultural Policy Reform, the idea  of introducing cross-compliance into the European Union  agricultural policy has become more and more popular.  Cross-compliance can be defined as making income support  conditional on farmers conforming to environmental  regulations and standards imposed on agricultural  production. From economic theory it is known that, in order  to establish and efficient policy, there should be  correspondence between the number of policy objectives and  the number of instruments. This has been neglected in the  case of European cross-compliance policies and, in order to  discuss the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy and  efficiency properties, a simulation model has been applied  to analyze the effects of introducing environmentally  related objectives concerning nitrate leaching as a  supplement to the current aim of income support in the  Common Agricultural Policy. Results suggest that combining  output reduction and nitrate leaching reduction is less  effective than separate policies for these two objectives.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/136527},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.136527},
}