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Abstract
In the European Union farm advisory systems’ preliminary purpose is to help farmers to
better understand and meet the requirements of the EU rules on environmental aspects of
agriculture. A great shift towards these goals and the importance of the farm advisory systems
took place in 2003, when the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy introduced the cross
compliance mechanism, which is in force as of 2005, and links direct payments directly to
farmers’ compliance with basic standards related to the environment, food safety, animal
and plant health and welfare, and in general, the requirement to maintain land in good
agricultural and environmental conditions.
The purpose of this paper is to define the regulatory framework of farm advisory system and
services in the EU and raise the question of the lack of interest and appropriate mechanisms
to broaden the activities of Serbian Agricultural Extension Services towards control of crosscompliance
requirements and good agricultural practices.