2.01 Modern agriculture is subjected to a variety of legal control measures, some originating in European agriculture policy and some from public policy for environmental protection in the countryside.

Some of the legislation affecting agricultural land use has originated, since the UK’s accession to the European Economic Community in 1972, in the law of the common agricultural policy (hereafter referred to as ‘CAP’). Some measures have their origins in EU environmental law. Others, such as the law of development control and planning, are products of post-war domestic legal policy.

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