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Enforcement of the good agricultural and environmental conditions of the EU's cross-compliance regulations comes into effect in Poland on January 1st, 2009. Polish farmers seem prepared to meet these requirements. However, Poland is still far from meeting the second tier requirements, the statutory management requirements, set to be enforced on January 1, 2011. The Polish government has requested a postponement or phase-in of the statutory management requirements, as there will need to be greater progress and changes in Poland to meet them. Many people in Poland are worried that cross-compliance will raise cost of production for Polish farmers with a highly regulatory form of farm management and hurt Poland's competitiveness in the EU and to third countries
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Food can only be produced by certified peoples - after 2011 it becomes a criminal offence under EU law to do otherwise.
http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200812/146306914.pdf
A PDF for the whole GAIN file.