This report is based on a study assigned to the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS) to investigate recent developments in the European food industry and the impact of foreign...

This technical report provides an overview on the AgroSAM project carried out at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). The objective was to create a set of Social Accounting Matrices with a disaggregated agricultural sector for the 27 EU Member States by combining national...

The European Commission proposes a minimum of 10 % biofuels in the total transport fuel use by 2020. The new 10% minimum target in 2020 is combined with the existing regulation, which fixes the target at 5.75% in 2010. This paper will in particular investigates how a full implementation of the...

This report investigates the possible effects of a Free Trade Area between the European Union and its three main trading partners: India, South Korea and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, focusing on the agricultural sector. The report includes an analysis of the...

The present report provides an overview of the different methodologies applied in partial and general equilibrium models used to analyse biofuel policies in Europe, as well as their methodological pros and cons. While the LEITAP model is included as a general equilibrium model covering biofuel...

This report contains a summary and the presentations of the expert workshop 'Commodity Market Development in Europe - Outlook', held in October 2010 in Brussels. The workshop was held in order to present and discuss the preliminary results of the European Commission's outlook on EU agricultural...

In 2008 and 2009, JRC-IPTS cooperated with Akdeniz University (UNIAKD) to analyse food quality assurance schemes in Turkey. The governance structure of food quality assurance in Turkey is explained, which includes public, semi-public and private institutes, laws and legislations, policies and...

These proceedings consist of presentations and a summary of a workshop on "Commodity Market Development in Europe - Outlook" held in November 2009 in Brussels. The workshop discussed short- and medium-term commodity baseline projections of agricultural markets in Europe. Policy makers, market...

The Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that 20% of the EU's energy needs should come from renewable sources by 2020, and includes a target for the transport sector of 10% from biofuels. This report analyses and discusses the global impacts of this biofuel target on agricultural...

In 2007, the European Parliament requested the European Commission to carry out a pilot project on 'Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Conservation through simplified cultivation techniques' (SoCo). The SoCo project was designed in a close cooperation between the Directorate-General for...