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Abstract
Economic sanctions, production and economic drop, as well as impoverishment have
significantly reduced capabilities of the state for investment in environmental protection,
but as well environmental concerns of agricultural producers. However, compliance with
mandatory standards and rules forming the corpus of agri-environmental measures and
principles of good agricultural practice are an important step towards preservance of the
environment and care about health of humans, plants and animals. On the other side, it is
an important prerequisite for Serbian exports of agricultural products. In addition from
mandatory rules, which are also relevant for fulfilment of the duty of cross-compliance
for producers receiving direct payments, agri-environmental incentives as voluntary
commitments of producers to provide a higher level of environmental protection are
particularly welcome, but are hardly possible to give rise in the short term. The Paper gives
a short overview of agri-environment policy in the EU and is mostly focused on mandatory
rules setting duties and responsibilities of agricultural producers and issues related to
approximation of Serbian legislative framework with the EU.