Criteria for an efficient enforcement of standards in relation to cross compliance
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Cross compliance has been introduced in
the EU partly to improve compliance with pre-existing
EU legislation in the Member States. Considerable effort
has been put into implementing this instrument and the
corresponding control systems. This presents an
opportunity to assess factors for an efficient
enforcement of standards and discuss these with regard
to cross compliance. The paper characterizes the
enforcement system connected with cross compliance in
the EU and implications of interactions with the national
control systems for specialized legislation. Economic
theories on mechanisms and the behavior, which form
the basis of controls, are applied to cross compliance in
order to draw conclusions on the implementation of
controls and sanctions. The potential contribution of
cross compliance to an efficient enforcement of
mandatory standards is critically discussed. In view of
the insecure future of direct payments any further
development of cross compliance within the EU should
aim at increasing the effectiveness of the enforcement of
legal standards and strengthen national specialized
control systems in the long term.