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Welsh Assembly Government Environment and Countryside Closed consultations

These responses to consultations have been submitted on behalf of the Welsh Agri-Food Partnership Organic Strategy Group.

Date	To whom	Topic
August 2008	Welsh Assembly Government	Consultation on the Proposed Second Environment Strategy for Wales Action Plan Response
June 2008	Welsh Assembly Government	Consultation on Responsibility and Cost Sharing for Animal Health and Welfare in Wales Response
June 2008	Welsh Assembly Government	Consultation Welsh Soils Action Plan Response
February 2008	Welsh Assembly Government	CAP Heath Check Response.
December 07	Welsh Assembly Government	Quality of Food Ansawdd bwyd Response.
December 07	Food Standards Agency	Partial Regulatory Impact Assessment produced for the Food Standards Agency’s Guidance on Managing Manures for Food Safety Response
December 07	Welsh Assembly Government	Implementation of the Nitrates Directive in Wales: Response here
June 07	European Commission	Community labelling thresholds for the adventitious or technically unavoidable presence of authorised genetically modified (GM) seeds in conventional seeds. Response
March 07	Welsh Assembly Government	Strategic Action Plan for the Welsh Dairy Industry
October 06	Welsh Assembly Government	Appetite for Life
July 06	Welsh Assembly Government	Rural Development Regulation - Plan for Wales
July 06	Welsh Assembly Government	Strategic Environmental Assessment of the RDP
February 06	Welsh Assembly Government	Review of the agricultural and horticultural levy bodies
Dec 05	Welsh Assembly Government	Lifting the Export Ban and harmonising SRM (Specified Risk Materials) controls with other Member States
Nov 05	Welsh Assembly Government	Welfare of Chickens Kept for Meat Production
October 05	Welsh Assembly Government	Environment Strategy for Wales
August 05	Food Standards Agency	Food Standards Agency draft Science Strategy 2005-10
August 05	Welsh Assembly Government	The Food and Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) ( Wales ) Regulations 2005
June 2005	Pesticides Safety Directorate	The Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products
June 2005	Welsh Assembly Government	The Code of recommendations for the Welfare of Livestock - SHEEP
18-4-05	Welsh Assembly Government	Animal Health and Welfare Strategy - Welsh Assembly Government Action Plan 2005-2006
15-11-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Consultation in Wales on the new EU Rural Development Regulation
12-11-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Draft Regulatory Appraisal of the cross-compliance element of the CAP regulations 2004
8-11-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Cattle Compensation: Bovine TB, Brucellosis, BSE and Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
September 04	Food Standards Agency	Managing farm manures for food safety: Guidelines for growers to minimise the risks of microbiological contamination of ready to eat crops. Response.
25-6-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Modifications to the Tir Mynydd scheme
2-6-04	Welsh Assembly Government	CAP reform: Proposals for the operation of the cross-compliance regime
2-6-04	Welsh Assembly Government	CAP reform: Potential for use of the national envelope
2-6-04	Welsh Assembly Government	CAP reform: Operation of the National Reserve
21-5-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Sustainable development action plan
20-05-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Potential for use of National Envelope
20-05-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Operation of the National Reserve
20-05-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Proposals for the operation of the Cross Compliance regime
2-04-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Preparing for a new GB strategy on bovine tuberculosis
2-03-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Draft contingency plan for BSE being identified in sheep
30-1-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Reform of the EU Common Agriculture Policy implementation in Wales. Dairy elements
16-1-04	Welsh Assembly Government	Review of the National Assembly's Sustainable Development Scheme
7-1-04	DEFRA	Proposals to rationalize compensation for notifiable animal disease control
12-03	Welsh Assembly Government	Reform of the EU Common Agriculture Policy implementation in Wales
31-10-03	Welsh Assembly Government	Outline of an animal health and welfare strategy for Great Britain
31-10-03	Welsh Assembly Government	Positive animal health: a draft action plan for a partnership approach in Wales and England
31-10-03	Welsh Assembly Government	Animal health and welfare strategy for Great Britain: a partial regulatory impact assessment
20-10-03	Welsh Assembly Government	Consultation on entry-level agri-environment scheme for Wales
20-5-03	Welsh Assembly Government	Organic Strategy Group position paper on mid-term review proposals
2-5-03	DEFRA	Review of National List and Plant Breeders Rights testing services and fees structure
15-10-02	Welsh Assembly Government	DEFRA consultation on the Implementation of the Cartegena Protocol: regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transboundary movement of GMOs
14-10-02	Welsh Assembly Government	Commission proposals on thresholds for the adventitious presence of approved GMOs in seeds
4-10-02	Welsh Assembly Government	Release of GMOs into the environment
17-09-02	Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, National Assembly for Wales	Future of Agri-Environmental Schemes in Wales see also response of the Countryside Council for Wales
17-09-02	Welsh Assembly Government	Mid-term Review of Agenda 2000 see the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee's update on EC proposals and the consultation responses, 30th October 2002
14/9/02	Welsh Assembly Government	Future of the Tir Mynydd Scheme see also response of the Countryside Council for Wales
16-07-02	Welsh Assembly Government	Proposals for the Operation of the National Envelope under the Sheep Annual Premium Scheme from 2003
1-05-02	Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, National Assembly for Wales	Committee Policy Review of Organic Farming for other submissions to the ARD policy review click here
30-03-02	Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor	Sustainable Use of Soils in Wales
30-03-02	Welsh Assembly Government	Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (Wales) Regulations, 2002
30-03-02	DEFRA	Quinquennial Review and Future of UKROFS
30-03-02	Welsh Assembly Government	New Nitrate Vulnerable Zones in Wales
30-03-02	Food Standards Agency	Sale of Unpasteurized Drinking Milk and Cream
2001	National Assembly for Wales	A future direction for Welsh agriculture
2001	National Assembly for Wales	Deliberate Release of GMOs
July 2000	House of Commons Agricultural Committee	Inquiry into Organic Farming
March 1999	House of Lords	Organic Farming and the European Union