LNV definition
Examples of LNV in a sentence
Agricultural pollution gradually became the concern of the Ministry of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries; Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij, LNV).
It did so by publishing its own Nature Policy Plan in 1990 (Ministerie van LNV, 1990).
For the Dutch Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: The Dutch BMS is a co-operation between Dutch Butterfly Conservation and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), part of the Network Ecological Monitoring (NEM) and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV).
Food-borne infections in the Netherlands annually lead to an estimated 300.000 to 700.000 disease cases resulting in 1000-4000 DALYs with estimated costs associated of about 30 Million Euro (Kennisagenda Voedselveiligheid Min LNV, Rapport DKI nr.
In the Ministry of LNV the Nature Directorate (and within it the Department of Policy Instruments) takes care of implementation issues.
Procedures have been improved, leading to a better substantive co-ordination of the Dutch input and to a strengthening of the role of ‘technical’ ministries such as VROM and LNV vis-à-vis the diplomatic service.
It seems that the ministry is now becoming much more aware of the problem (LNV 2000).
Only in cases of the highest political importance do civil servants from the Ministry of LNV actually attend meetings of the relevant Council Working Group.
While pollution and spatial planning issues come under the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment (Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieu, VROM), nature conservation is dealt with by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit, LNV), energy by Economic Affairs, and water pollution as well as transport policy by Transport and Public Works.
It is now the Ministry of VROM, rather than of LNV, which is responsible for raising these issues in Brussels.