The aim of the ’Precision agriculture and the future of farming in Europe’ project is to identify implications for legislative pathways for precision agriculture in Europe by mapping areas of concern around future developments. The project has three phases: Analysis of underlying technologies and existing insights from the field, as well as anticipated future developments; Identification of possible impacts of the uptake of precision agriculture, construction of possible future scenarios, and exploration of these scenarios to map the related opportunities and concerns; Identification of legal instruments that may need to be modified or reviewed, including — where appropriate — areas identified for anticipative parliamentary work, in accordance with the conclusions reached within the project. This annex to the study is the outcome of the first phase of the foresight study and consists of six detailed technical briefing papers.

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