1. Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Integrating Environmental Requirements into the new Common Agricultural Policy
Olivier DIANA
23 October 2013
Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development
European Commission

2. Challenges Economic Environmental Territorial Food security
Slowdown in productivity growth
Price/income volatility
Socio economic context
Economic viability
Climate change
Water/air quality
Soil depletion
Biodiversity and Habitats
Energy and biomass
Vitality of rural areas
Diversity of EU agriculture

3. … and how will the future CAP address them
Challenges
Policy objectives
Reform objectives
Improved
sustainability
Enhanced
competitiveness
Greater
effectiveness
Environmental
Economic
Territorial
Sustainable management of natural resources and climate action
Balanced territorial development
Viable food production

4. The New Greening Architecture of the CAP
Agricultural Research
Implementation mechanism
European Innovation Partnership
Farm Advisory System
Rural
development
Voluntary
with premia covering cost incurred
and income forgone
Cumulative environmental benefits
Green direct payments
Mandatory
with direct support
(decoupled “green”
payment per ha)
Cross compliance
Statutory
Management
Requirements and
Good Agricultural and
Environmental
Conditions
Agricultural area
(eligible for direct payments)

5. Cross Compliance Themes
Water
Soil
Biodiversity
Landscape and Minimum Maintenance
Food Safety
Identification and Registration
Animal Diseases
Plant Protection Products
Animal Welfare

6. Greening of Direct Payments
Green requirements are eligibility criteria for 30% of the envelope for direct payments
Crop diversification: ha: 2 crops, >30 ha: 3 crops (1 main crop max 75%, 2 main crops together max 95%)
Ecological Focus Areas (EFA): 5%, after COM report in and proposal increase to 7%
Maintaining permanent grassland: Flexibility within a 5% margin of the ratio grassland/total agric. area; no ploughing or conversion of sensitive grassland in NATURA 2000 areas

7. Ecological Focus Areas
Safeguard and improve biodiversity on farms:
Land lying fallow
Terraces
Landscape features
Buffer strip
Agro-forestry areas
Strips of eligible ha along forest edges
Short rotation coppice with no use of fertilizer and/or pesticides
Afforested areas
Catch crops or green cover
Nitogen fixing crop

8. Equivalent practices to greening
Crop diversification and EFA:
a) Holdings where more than 75% of the eligible agricultural area is permanent grassland or cultivated with crops either under water or a combination of these uses provided that the arable area not covered by these uses does not exceed 30 ha
b) Holdings where more than 75% of the arable land is entirely used for production of temporary grass, land laying fallow, cultivated with leguminuous crops, or a combination of these uses provided that the arable area not covered by these uses does not exceed 30 ha
Certification schemes: compliance with national environmental legislation, going beyond the relevant mandatory standards
Agri-environment-climate measures: details of equivalent practices provided when Annex (VIa) of the basic regulation and delegated acts will be adopted

9. Rural Development Policy
1. EU „Strategic Document“ establishing common priorities
2. „Partnership Contracts“ with Member States, including description of interplay between different funds
3. Establishment of national regional programmes based on needs assessment and specific programme targets
4. Monitoring and evaluation, including review of programme performance in 2017 and 2019

10. Strategic Priorities for Rural Development Policy
Knowledge transfer and innovation
Enhancing competitiveness
Food chain organisation and risk management
Restoring, preserving, and enhancing ecosystems
Resource efficiency and climate change
Social inclusion
Common Strategic Framework with the other EU funds will improve coordination and increase synergies and complementarities;
The broad objectives of the RD policy will be translated into a limited set of EU priorities for action;
The tool-kit of rural development measures will be streamlined and simplified, with a focus on better targeting towards the EU priorities;
Reinforced provisions concerning programming will ensure a balanced and targeted coverage of specific territorial conditions and needs;
The establishment of quantified targets at programme level will ensure an accurate follow-up of the progress of the programmes in achieving the EU priorities;
The monitoring and evaluation system will be reinforced in this respect.

11. Agri-environment Measures
Examples of agri-environment measures
Habitats and Biodiversity
Water
Soil
Positive effects on
Input reduction
Organic farming
Extensive grassland management
Environmental priority areas
Bufferstrips
Conversion of arable land into pasture
Management of terraces

12. Environment First Pillar Greening and Cross Compliance
Vocational training
LEADER
Advisory Services
Compensation for Natura requirements
Water
Landscapes
Habitats
Soil
Climate change
Biodiversity
Productive and
Non-productive
investments
Environment
Direct Payments
Forest-environment
measures
LFA payments
Organic farming
EIP
Agri-environment and climate measures

13. For further information
Political agreement on the CAP Legal proposals Impact assessment Commission Communication ‘The CAP towards 2020’

14. Thank you for your attention!