CROSS-COMPLIANCE Facilitating the CAP reform: Compliance and competitiveness of European agriculture Specific Targeted Research or Innovation Project (STREP) Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area Deliverable 5: Mandatory standards in 7 EU countries and 3 non-EU countries Country Report Netherlands

This report provides an overview of the implementation of all the SMRs and GAECs included in the cross-compliance package into national Dutch law. It also tries to give a brief background about national agricultural and policy context, which contributes to understand the peculiarities of the Dutch situation. Two important other issues discussed. First the degree of compliance and the costs of compliance. The second SMR which farmers ranked to be most difficult to satisfy was the identification and registration requirement