Handelsverkeer in de mestmarkt: opties voor interventies

The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is looking for action strategies to reduce the risk of fraud in the manure market. This can be done by means of lower manure disposal costs and by introducing a competing interest for exports. The high costs of manure disposal can be tackled by reducing supply or increasing demand. Processing a larger amount of manure, with adequate corresponding enforcement, is the most realistic of the options. The presence of competing interests between the manure supplier and the buyer as regards the amount of minerals serves to inhibit fraud. This is lacking in the case of exports because no mineral accounting needs to be approved abroad. Here too, co-ordination with other countries could create competing interests and thus reduce the incentive to defraud.