6. On the basis of rules agreed as part of an international agreement on climate change, the Commission shall propose to include emissions and removals related to land use, land use change and forestry in the Community reduction commitment, as appropriate, according to harmonised modalities ensuring permanence and the environmental integrity of the contribution of land use, land use change and forestry as well as accurate monitoring and accounting.

In the event that no international agreement on climate change is approved by the Community by 31 December 2010, the Commission should make a proposal to include emissions and removals related to land use, land use change and forestry in the Community reduction commitment, in accordance with harmonised modalities, building on work carried out in the context of the UNFCCC, and ensure permanence and the environmental integrity of the contribution of land use, land use change and forestry as well as accurate monitoring and accounting, with the aim of the proposed act entering into force from 2013.

(4) A derogation from Regulation (EC) No 2316/1999 should therefore be introduced whereby the affected regions may allow arable crop set-aside land to be used for animal feed purposes before expiry of the set-aside period, while introducing measures to disallow any lucrative utilisation of such land.

The proposal provides in particular for measures to: - introduce greater flexibility in regionalization plans (whilst ensuring that historic average national yields are reflected); - refashion the set-aside conditions by providing for: = an increase in the compensation from ECU 45 to ECU 57 per tonne; = the possibility of 3-year rotation; = authorization to combine rotational and fixed set-aside, with entitlement to an extra five percentage points; = relaxation of the transfer rules; = extension of the possibilities for using land set aside; = the possibility of granting compensation for set-aside in excess of the compulsory minimu ...[+++]m; - allow, in certain cases, for exceptions to Article 9 in order to cover specific situations (e.g. regrouping) without, however, calling into question the principle behind this Article that land which was under permanent pasture, permanent crops or trees or was used for non- agricultural purposes until 31 December 1991 does not qualify for compensation.

Land use The environmental implications of land use suggest that more planning controls and incentives are needed to limit damaging new developments and to influence the way in which land is used.

As a precondition to establishing a park, the Act requires that the federal government have clear title and an unencumbered right of ownership in the lands to be included in the park.20 New sections 41.4(8) and 41.4(9) of the Act, added by clause 5 of the bill, specify that leases, easements, licences of occupation, land use permits and authorizations, and water licences relating to public lands in the park reserve are deemed not to encumber or affect ...[+++]title to the lands.