!!!Agrarpolitik

Agricultural Policy: Agriculture and forestry perform functions in 
production, infrastructure and ecology, from which the goals of 
Austrian agricultural policy are derived: economic sustainability, 
ecological orientation and social balance. The objectives of 
Austria´s agricultural policy are laid down in the Agricultural 
Act of 1992 (Amendments 1995 and 1996). They include: maintaining 
traditional forms of agriculture in a viable rural environment; 
extending the potential for combining agricultural occupations with 
those from other sectors; market-oriented production; sales and 
processing; promoting agriculture in the context of naturally 
disadvantageous conditions; ensuring supply with high-quality products 
and foodstuffs; maintaining clean water, air and ground; landscape 
protection; protection from natural catastrophes, etc. In the context 
of agricultural reform within the  European Union, which Austria 
joined in 1995, Austria has also replaced its system of price 
subsidies with that of direct payments. The objectives of the CAP 
(Common Agricultural Policy) for the period after 2000 are laid down 
in Agenda 2000, which was agreed on by the European Council in 1999. 
These objectives affect crops, beef, milk, rural development, etc. 
Agricultural policy in Austria is also determined by the following 
institutions: Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, 
Environment and Water Management ( Ministry of Agriculture),  
Agrarmarkt Austria, authorities of the provincial governments,  
Chambers of Agriculture and agricultural cooperatives (Austrian  
Raiffeisenverband)

!Further reading
M. F. Hofreither, Landwirtschaftspolitik, in: 
Handbuch des politischen Systems Oe., 1991; Federal Ministry for 
Agriculture and Forestry (ed.), Gruener Bericht 1997, 1998.


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