<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Agricultural exporters tend to enter into contracts containing quality or standard clauses. These provisions may refer to either international public standards or standards set by private bodies. The second are usually more dynamic and thereby may respond to the consumers’ demand more quickly. However, high participation costs may exclude a large share of producers from private standards schemes. The state may pick certain socially desirable private standards and evolve them to the public regulation, as it was the case of the rules on organic farming in the EU. The government may introduce aid to encourage all interested actors to participate in the scheme, although the policy space left for the government to do so is limited by the WTO disciplines for domestic support.</p></abstract>

Agricultural exporters tend to enter into contracts containing quality or standard clauses. These provisions may refer to either international public standards or standards set by private bodies. The second are usually more dynamic and thereby may respond to the consumers’ demand more quickly. However, high participation costs may exclude a large share of producers from private standards schemes. The state may pick certain socially desirable private standards and evolve them to the public regulation, as it was the case of the rules on organic farming in the EU. The government may introduce aid to encourage all interested actors to participate in the scheme, although the policy space left for the government to do so is limited by the WTO disciplines for domestic support.

Legal Environment for Organic Production in the Eu and Ukraine / Pprávne Prostredie Pre Ekologickú Produkciu V Eú A Na Ukrajine

EU agrarian Law

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Agricultural exporters tend to enter into contracts containing quality or standard clauses. These provisions may refer to either international public standards...

Legal Environment for Organic Production in the Eu and Ukraine / Pprávne Prostredie Pre Ekologickú Produkciu V Eú A Na Ukrajine

Published Online: Jul 14, 2016

Page range: 33 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eual-2016-0005

Keywords
DCFTA, equivalency procedure, organic agriculture, private standards, WTO Agreement on Agriculture

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Legal Environment for Organic Production in the Eu and Ukraine / Pprávne Prostredie Pre Ekologickú Produkciu V Eú A Na Ukrajine

Published Online: Jul 14, 2016

Page range: 33 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eual-2016-0005

KeywordsDCFTA, equivalency procedure, organic agriculture, private standards, WTO Agreement on Agriculture

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
DCFTA, equivalency procedure, organic agriculture, private standards, WTO Agreement on Agriculture