Chapter 6

6 SCHEME FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF NITRATES DIRECTIVE IN LITHUANIA

A summary of the key actions and their timings is presented below.

*Action*	*Responsible institution*	*timing*
1. Transposition of Nitrates Directive into national legislation:
1.1 Governmental Order on Protection of Waters from Pollution by Nitrates from Agricultural Sources (draft developed)	Government	2001
1.2 Amendment to the Water Law (if needed) (draft developed)	Parliament	2002
1.3 Approval of the Code of Good Agricultural Practice (already approved)	MA/ME	2000
1.4 Approval of Programme for Protection of Waters from Pollution by Nitrogen Compounds from Agricultural Sources	ME/ MA	2002
2. Amendment of the Environmental Monitoring Programme	ME	2002
2.1 Development of Programme for monitoring of Nitrates in Aquatic Environment (developed by the Nitrates project team)	ME	2001
2.2 Revision of Environmental Monitoring Programme (to be co-ordinated with EU Phare twinning project)	ME	2002
2.3 Establishment of additional groundwater monitoring stations	GS	2003
2.4 Establishment of additional surface monitoring stations	JRC/HMS	2003
3. Establishment of the first four year action programme	ME /MA	2002-2003
3.1 Definition of the mandatory measures for implementation of Nitrates Directive	ME /MA	2002-2003
3.2 Elaboration of detailed action plan for implementation of the mandatory measures	ME /MA	2002-2003
4. Training and capacity building
4.1 Training of institutions responsible for control of implementation	ME /MA	2002-ongoing
4.2 Establishment of a plan for implementation of the Code of Good Agricultural Practices on farm-level	MA	2001
4.3 Development of an education programme for farmers on the Code of Good Agricultural Practise	AAS/ UA/ WMI	2001-ongoing
5. Implementation of the action programme
5.1 Detailed assessment of costs for implementation of the mandatory measures of the Action Programmes	MA/ME	2002-2003
5.2 Elaboration of detailed programme to finance the implementation of mandatory measures	MA/ME	2002-2003
5.3 Establishment of subsidy and loan systems to finance implementation of the mandatory measures	MA/ME	2002-2003
5.4 Establishment of manure storage facilities in newly established farms and farms that are expanding animal production (> 10 LU)		2002 - ongoing
5.5 Establishment of manure storage facilities in farms larger than 600 LU		by 2008
5.6 Establishment of manure storage facilities in farms that are not expanding animal production (>300 LU)		by 20010
5.7 Establishment of manure storage facilities in small farms that are not expanding animal production (> 10 LU)		by 2012
5.8 Introduction of a system for the collection of statistical information on fertiliser use on farm level	Statistical Department	2003
6. Submission of summary report to the Commission	ME	4 years after entry
7.Revision of designation of nitrate vulnerable zones (optional)	ME	4 years after entry
8. Review of data on nitrate pollution and revision of monitoring programme (if needed)	ME (JRC /GS /MRC)	2006

The total investment in training, manure storage and equipment for spreading for implementing the proposed scheme is preliminary estimated to 1,700 million Litas for the modern scenario and 757 million Litas for a less modern scenario.

These investments are foreseen to be distributed over the period 2001-2012 as presented in the Figures 6.1 and 6.2 below, using the assumptions stated in Box 1 in Chapter 4.

Figure 6.1 Annual investments for implementation of the Nitrates Directive in Lithuania. Modern scenario

Figure 6.2 Annual investments for implementation of the Nitrates Directive in Lithuania. Less modern scenario

The estimated yearly investment is determined by:

1. Training of farmers in the Code of Good Agricultural Practice will start from 2001 and intensify around 2005-2007 and thereafter continue with a lower intensity. The total investment is estimated to 24 million Litas, which is relatively small compared to investments in manure storage and spreading equipment.

2. Investments in adequate manure storage for farms with more than 600 LU to be completed by 2007.

3. Investments in adequate manure storage for farms with more than 300 LU to be completed by 2009.

4. Investments in adequate manure storage for farms with more than 10 LU to be completed by 2012.

5. Investments in manure spreaders will follow after the investment in storage.

It is proposed that the training of farmers and the establishment of adequate storage capacity is subsidised by the government for the period while the investment in manure spreaders should by financed by the farm enterprise. The subsidy could be financed over the SAPARD programme and the Rural Support Fund. The next phase of this project will make more detailed estimates of the cost for agriculture and develop the subsidy structure.

The estimated figures for the 2 scenarios are presented in Tables 6.1 and 6.2 below:

Table 6.1 Annual investments Million Litas Modern Scenario

Year	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Education	0.0	1.2	2.4	3.6	4.8	4.8	4.8	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Manure Storage	0.0	0.0	0.0	27.4	54.7	129.4	204.1	177.3	224.6	70.7	88.3	123.6
Manure Spreaders	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	36.4	43.6	90.6	50.3	194.9	18.8	37.6	112.7
Total	0.0	1.2	2.4	31.0	95.9	177.8	299.5	228.1	420.0	89.9	126.4	236.8
Grand Total												1709.0

Table 6.2 Annual investments Million Litas less modern scenario

Year	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Education	0.0	1.2	2.4	3.6	4.8	4.8	4.8	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Manure Storage	0.0	0.0	0.0	14.7	29.3	69.4	109.5	95.1	120.5	37.9	47.4	66.3
Manure Spreaders	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	8.9	10.7	22.2	12.3	47.7	4.6	9.2	27.6
Total	0.0	1.2	2.4	18.3	43.0	84.9	136.4	107.9	168.6	43.0	57.0	94.3
Grand Total												757.0

The investment related to the Programme for Monitoring of Nitrates is in the order of 385,000 Litas (short-term investments for establishment of monitoring wells in shallow aquifers). Long-term investments for expansion of the groundwater monitoring programme are estimated to be at the order of 5-6 million Litas and should be designed also to fulfil other national and EU requirements. Investments to monitoring programme have to be financed by the Ministry of Environment. Again, full elaboration of these costs will be conducted during 2002-2003 as part of the Action Programmes development.

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