The 11th Annual Conference on Control with Remote Sensing of Area-Based Subsidies - Proceedings

The 11th yearly CwRS Conference on Controls with Remote Sensing of area-based subsidies was organized by the JRC (Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, AGRIFISH Unit, MARS PAC) on 23-25 November 2006 in Kraków, Poland. The Conference was organized in cooperation with the ARMA (Polish Paying Agency) and the Polish Ministry of Agriculture. It was held at the Sheraton Hotel, in Kraków. For the first time part of the conference was successfully organized with five parallel sessions plus poster session. The number of the participants registered to the event was 309, representing 36 countries (EU25, AC (BG, RO), CCs (HR, TR), and representatives from Albania (AL), Serbia Montenegro (SCR), Kosovo (KS), Macedonia (MK), and Switzerland, Israel, USA. Some registered participants (7%, mainly from PL) had to cancel their participation leading to a final number of 287 participants, which is a similar audience as last conference in Budapest. A specific agreement with DG ELARG (TAIEX office) allowed the participation of above mentioned representatives from the CARDs countries. An important point was the involvement of the D1 Unit of DG AGRI who accepted to (co) chair 2 sessions. DG AGRI was in all present with 6 participants. JRC (Public Relations and IPSC AgriFish Unit) participated with 13 staff. The Conference in general gave input on the 2005 achievements, the new legislation, the problems and the solutions by the Member States, some approaches and considerations from the DG Agriculture, the technical progress, and the plans for 2006. Moreover, the EU, the MS Administrations, the Image Providers, and the contracting companies had a chance to meet each other and have discussions. These proceedings are divided into two volumes (Volume 1 and Volume 2): the 1st one including all Plenary Sessions S1-S4, the 2nd one including all Parallel Technical Sessions (T1-T6 ).JRC.G.3-Agricultur