| The European Commission, Directorate-General Environment has contracted Alterra, Wageningen UR for the Service contract “Integrated measures in agriculture to reduce ammonia emissions”. The general objective of this service contract is to define the most appropriate integrated and consistent actions to reduce various environmental impacts of nitrogen from agriculture, notably the effects on quality of water and air and on greenhouse gas emissions. There were five tasks of the Ammonia Service Contract: Task 1. Develop an integrated approach (MITERRA-EUROPE). Task 2. Analysis of International and European instruments Task 3. In depth assessment of the most promising measures Task 4. Impact assessment of a possible modification of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive Task 5. Stakeholder consultation, presentations, workshops. The tenderer consortium consisted of Alterra (Wageningen UR, The Netherlands), EuroCare (University of Bonn, Germany), and ASG (Wageningen UR, The Netherlands). Sub contractors were Umweltbundesamt (Austria), NEIKER (Spain), IMUZ (Poland), CEH (United Kingdom), MNP (the Netherlands), and ECN (the Netherlands). |