What is the relationship between the management of agricultural land and biodiversity? To what extent are the EU’s biodiversity goals addressed through the CAP?

These questions form the focus on a new study by IEEP for DG Agriculture. It is based on a thorough review of the relationship between agriculture and biodiversity and considers how policies, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), have worked in terms of their design, coordination and implementation for sustaining biodiversity and associated ecosystem services through agriculture, and how their role can be enhanced in the future to contribute towards meeting the EU’s biodiversity goals.

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IEEP has just completed a study of all 88 RDPs in the EU-27 and created the first typology of entry-level agri-environment management actions and their potential contribution to EU environmental objectives. Case studies in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Italy, Poland and the UK show how these payments are used to incentivise environmental management just above the reference level, and how schemes are targeted, designed and revised.

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In this 18 page discussion paper, published in November 2008, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) presents a Vision for a 'Common Environment and Rural Policy (CERP)' .

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This report, produced by the Social and Economic Council in the Netherlands (SER), provides the thinking behind the Dutch Government's vision paper 'European Agricultural Policy 2020: The Dutch Outlook.'

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The report is the product of the discussions which took place at the informal meeting of Agriculture ministers held in Annecy on 23 September 2008.

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This discussion paper, published in February 2007, by the Polish government's Office of the Committee of European Integration, presents various scenarios for changes to the CAP from 2013. It reflects the authors' personal views and does not provide an official position of the Polish government.

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