Documents - Agriculture and food safety

1. EU Law in Practice

   As a member of the European Union, the Netherlands usually loses when the European Commission takes formal steps to resolve its ...

   Report | 15-06-2023

2. Focus on Bird Flu

   The Netherlands is currently experiencing the worst outbreak of bird flu (avian influenza) since 2003. The virus is now infecting ...

   Report | 14-06-2023

3. Insight into Forest Management

   Staatsbosbeheer, forest management and forest strategy The image that has emerged in recent years that Staatsbosbeheer, the Dutch ...

   Report | 06-12-2022

4. Focus on strategic stocks

   The Netherlands Court of Audit has investigated the government’s strategic stocks and their availability during an emergency. The ...

   Report | 29-09-2022

5. Where is the black-tailed godwit?

   Policy to protect meadow birds is not working The policy to protect meadow birds such as the black-tailed godwit is not working. ...

   Report | 14-12-2021

6. Livestock manure policy

   Sustainable livestock farming: follow-up audit 2019 The Netherlands Court of Audit has audited the livestock farming sector’s ...

   Report | 20-06-2019

7. Brexit

   Preparation for the financial and economic impact and the consequences for Customs The Netherlands Court of Audit has audited the ...

   Report | 10-12-2018

8. Supervision of the Netherlands food and consumer product safety authority following the merger

   The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) was created on 1 January 2012 through the merger of three ...

   Report | 20-11-2013

9. Tradable rights and the environment

   The whys and wherefores of trading systems for CO2 and NOx emission rights, fishing quotas, milk quotas and animal rights: an ...

   Report | 25-06-2013

10. Sustainable intensive livestock farming: follow-up audit 2013

    The Court of Audit has carried out a follow-up to its 2008 audit of sustainable intensive livestock farming in the Netherlands. ...

    Report | 22-05-2013