David Baldock
Executive Director
Email:
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7799 2244
Specialist Subjects:
Agriculture and the environment, Integration of the environment into other policies, European strategies and global aspects of EU policy
Profile:
David's background is in philosophy and economics. He joined the Institute in the mid 1980s to establish a programme of work on agricultural and rural environmental issues. He became Deputy Director in 1992 and Director in 1998. As well as being an authority on European agricultural policy and the environment, David's specialist areas include the implementation of environmental legislation and EU strategy with regard to environmental integration. He has an active interest in sustainable development and the external dimension of European policy. Current external commitments include membership of the Commission's high-level group on the competitiveness of the car industry in Europe. Please contact David's personal assistant, Michelle Young, via the email address above.
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Towards the CAP Health Check and the European Budget Review
The CAP Health Check proposals and the EU Budget Review are the focus of a paper written by IEEP for the German Marshall Fund. This informed discussions at a 'CAP Retreat', held in Brussels on the 3rd ...
31 Aug 2007 -
An Evaluation of the Less Favoured Area Measure in the 25 Member States of the European Union
The evaluation conducted by IEEP for DG Agriculture is expected to inform a review of the policy in 2010. It concludes that the policy, although regarded by some as anachronistic, is effective in addressing ...
15 Jan 2007 -
Climate Change Action - The UK Leader or Laggard. A special report for the All Party Parliamentary Environment Group.
Political pressure for action on climate change, in the UK especially, has been growing. All three major political parties now highlight this issue as a fundimental challenge to the present and any future ...
30 Apr 2006 -
Impacts of Changes in Key EU Policies on Trade and Production Displacement of Sugar and Soy
This study was commissioned by WWF's European Agriculture Programme, and funded by WWF's Forest Conversion Initiative and Sustainable Sugar Initiative. The aim was to obtain more information on the way ...
31 Mar 2006 -
IEEP Evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry: Pre Budget 2004, the road ahead
The evidence submitted concerns one of the areas of focus of the EAC Inquiry - impact assessment. It focuses on the relationships between the EU and UK approaches, and raises a number of issues regarding ...
09 Jun 2005 -
Summary Paper of the 'Seminar of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD): Implications for Forestry
On July 14 2004, the European Commission published a proposal for a European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), essentially a new Rural Development Regulation (RDR). The ...
11 Mar 2005 -
MEACAP: Recent Evolution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - State of Play and Environmental Potential
WP6 D4B - This paper explains the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as it was in 2003, recent reforms and expected future changes. It is intended to lay some of the foundations for the ...
01 Mar 2005 -
MEACAP: The Convention on Biodiversity and its Potential Implications for the Agricultural Sector in Europe
This paper introduces the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and aims at presenting commitments of the Parties to the Convention, which relate to agricultural activities and resources ...
01 Mar 2005 -
MEACAP: First Stage Ground Rules
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidelines for the evaluation of technical and policy measures undertaken in the course of the MEACAP project. This should lead to a consistent ...
01 Feb 2005 -
Agricultural Biodiversity - Issues to be aware of within MEACAP
The purpose of this brief document is to: provide an overview of the issues known to be important for agricultural biodiversity at an EU15 and EU25 level; provide a focus for the types of ...
27 Jan 2005