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The Agri-Environment Regulation EU 2078/92: The Role of the European Commission in Policy Shaping and Setting

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  • A Jones
  • J R A Clark

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We examine the role of the European Commission in the formulation and negotiation of a Council regulation on agri-environmental policy (EU 2078/92). We show how this regulation was shaped largely by political opportunism and financial and administrative realities, rather than by stringent environmental considerations and targets, We also reveal how the debate over EU 2078/92 has been dominated by only a few actors at supranational and national levels, and identify the key role played by the European Commission at all stages of the progress of the regulation through the route ways of the European Union's (EU) decisionmaking process. Of further interest is the way in which well-established agricultural policy communities have attempted to keep a tight rein on the development of the regulation in order to prevent this new policy area from being infiltrated by nonagricultural interests. For such interests, the regulation provided an opportunity to penetrate the long-established policy network surrounding agriculture in the EU.

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  • A Jones & J R A Clark, 1998. "The Agri-Environment Regulation EU 2078/92: The Role of the European Commission in Policy Shaping and Setting," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 16(1), pages 51-68, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:16:y:1998:i:1:p:51-68
    DOI: 10.1068/c160051
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