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Merger of the Federal Ministry of Environmental Affairs with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Fo
In 2000 the Federal Ministry of Environment, Youth and Family Affairs was, according to the 1986 Federal Ministries Act (Federal Law Gazette No 76/1986), incorporated into the then Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management to form the new Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (acc. to Federal Law Gazette I No 16/2000). This combination of agricultural and environmental competencies was an important strategic decision. In the new Federal Ministry the responsibilities of soil, water, air, and intact nature are pooled.
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History and chronology of the BMLFUW
With the liberation of farmers in 1848 the personal vassal relationship was abolished. Farmers had gained unrestricted ownership of their land. However, the peasantry upon whom this right was conferred had become unaccustomed to independence and was inexperienced in important questions of legal and economic life. Grown up in the world of barter economy with the ideal of the good house-father, farmers suddenly found themselves in the role of the entrepreneur who has to earn cash to be able to buy inputs and to pay taxes and commutation debts.
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Better quality of life
From the very beginning the Ministry focused its activities on the livelihood security of farmers, who, after all, accounted for approximately three quarters of the Monarchy’s total population then. In addition to assisting livestock farming and forestry, raising the quality of life in rural areas and strengthening the competitiveness of agriculture and its products on national and international markets have been matters of special concern to agricultural policy – topics which have not lost any of their topicality since then.
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Establishment of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Arable Farming
The understanding that farmers and their families should not be left on their own in this situation was one of the crucial reasons for the decision to establish an Imperial and Royal Ministry of Agriculture at the turn to the year 1868. Since the latter was entrusted with the “supreme direction of the various branches of land improvement”, in particular with the affairs of agriculture, forestry and water management, Austria has had a central agency which deals with agricultural and forestry concerns at government level and which – now more than ever before – secures future-oriented, environmentally benign agriculture a due place both in Austria and Europe.
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Accession to the EU
Eventually, Austria’s accession to the European Union at the beginning of 1995 brought about a fundamentally new agricultural system. Similar to the upheavals and revolutions of the preceding decades, farmers mastered also this great change with optimism and confidence. > more about: Accession to the EU
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