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Figure 4.3 Estimated cumulative N fertilizer usage of European countries, 1991-2005 (Csathó &
Radimszky, 2012).
Figure 4.4 Groundwater status of some EU15 countries in the mid-2000s (Csathó & Radimszky, 2012),
for the region (in terms of active ingredient use in arable land and permanent crops
in tonnes per active ingredient), and growth was mostly accounted for by the expan-
sion of the area of the European Union by acquisition of new member states (Wagner
et al. , 2010; Mereu, 2012; FAO, 2013), in contrast to the United States market, where