best available technologies for manure treatment - Baltic Green Belt

Best Available Technologies for manure treatment baltic sea 2020
1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND DESCRIPTION
Biogas Branch Association. It is planned to publish
a version ultimo 2009, and a ‘final’ version October
2010.
1.5.3: balticCOMPASS
balticCOMPASS is a new
project with a budget of
M€ 6.5 that recently was
approved for financing by
the EU Baltic Sea Region
Programme 2007–2013
/ Interreg IIIB. The project is led by Swedish Agricultural
University and has some 25 partners in the
countries around the Baltic Sea. The overall objective
is defined as “To contribute to securing a good ecological
status of the Baltic Sea as a means to contribute
to economic growth and integration in the Baltic Sea
Region”, and livestock manure treatment technologies
are a key focus of the project. The project includes
the following six work packages (work package
leaders in brackets):
i. Management and Administration (SLU)
ii. Communication and information (BSAG)
iii. Best Practice - utilisation and transfer (JTI)
iv. Investment preparation (ABP/CBMI)
v. Comprehensive assessment and scenarios (SYKE)
vi. Governance and policy adaptation (SEI)
The work packages contains measures to reach the
overall objective, here under information and dissemination
measures, development on utilisation
and transfer of best practices, support to speed up
investments in the best manure treatment technologies,
monitoring and modelling measures, and policy
adaptation. The project will run for 4 years.
1.5.4: Forum for Inventive and Sustainable
Manure Processing, a Baltic Sea Strategy
Flagship Project
There is a long term need to co-ordinate basic and
applied research, model development, develop and
discuss scenarios, transfer of knowledge, and business
innovation and development initiatives within the
field of Sustainable Manure Processing.
The Baltic Forum for Inventive and Sustainable
Manure Processing will contribute to rural development
by reinforcing sustainability of agriculture
in the Baltic region. This will be done through an
improved exchange of information on how to process
manure (pig, cattle, poultry) in sustainable ways in
the Baltic Sea Region to minimize the environmental
impact, and to reach benefits such as renewable
energy, job creation and business development.
The forum considers manure a serious problem,
but also a part of the solution. Manure should
become an attractive and profitable resource in the
future. Processing manure can and should lead to
production of ‘designer fertilisers’ (pellets, liquid,
etc.) improving agricultural production and bio-energy
(biogas, fibre combustion, etc.) reducing the CO2
emissions in the region.
The Forum is included as a ‘Fast track Flagship
project’ (i.e. highly prioritised) in the EU Baltic
Sea Action Plan. CBMI (Denmark) and Agrifood
Research, MTT (Finland) are nominated as lead
partners.
The process of project establishment is ongoing
and specific objectives of the project are to be defined.
So far there has been held consultations between
the key actors; MTT and CBMI as well as a contact
committee under the Danish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and a coordination meeting organised by the
Finnish Ministry of Agriculture.
1.5.5: Baltic DEAL – Putting Best Practices in
agriculture into work, a Baltic Sea Strategy
Flagship Project
The overall aim of Baltic DEAL is to improve the
environmental status of the Baltic Sea through
reductions in nutrient losses from the agricultural
sector without impairing competitiveness or production.
The project aims to create a sector-driven and
voluntary approach to raise awareness and increase
expertise among farmers in order to reduce negative
environmental impact while at the same time maintaining
or increasing competitiveness, thus creating a
win-win situation.
The specific objective of the project is to develop
a nationally adapted, yet common, Baltic Sea region
approach to advance and strengthen agricultural
advisory services and related demonstration and
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