(Görans Manure management presentation here)

1. (Görans Manure management presentation here)

2. BAAP THEBALTIC SEAAGRICULTURALRUN-OFFACTION PROGRAMME

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

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

5. 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) • 25 million SEK from the Swedish Government • BAAP II (1998 – 2002) • 25 million SEK from the Swedish International Development • and Co-operation Agency (Sida) • Local co-financing

6. 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.

7. 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 http://www.baap.lt

8. Fromthe EU Nitrate Directive 91/676/EEC • Article 4 • 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.

9. Annex IICODE(S) OF GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE • 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: • periods when the land application of fertilizer is • inappropriate; • the land application of fertilizer to steeply sloping • ground; • the land application of fertilizer to water-saturated, • flooded, frozen or snow-covered ground;

10. 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.