Evaluation of the Cross Compliance Programme
In October 2008 Defra commissioned CCRI, ADAS and Central Science Laboratory (CSL), with ADAS as lead partner, to evaluate the cross-compliance programme.
Cross Compliance comprises a number of standards relating to environment, public health and animal health and welfare that farmers have to comply with in order to claim the Single Payment and other direct payments. The programme was introduced in 2005 and is currently under review. The project will firstly review and synthesise the secondary data and literature on Cross Compliance, secondly undertake a consultation exercise with farmer advisors and directly with farmers to fill evidence gaps and inform an analysis of farmer behaviour and thirdly to undertake a robust evaluation of effectiveness and value for money. The evidence and evaluation outputs will be synthesised to address the main evaluation question 'what is the value provided by the Cross Compliance programme' and inform recommendations for improving the scheme.
The CCRI input will be led by Jane Mills, with help from Dr Janet Dwyer, Dr Peter Gaskell and Ian Condliffe.
