Where we are on CAP?
Implementation of the new CAP
State of play
11-12 June 2014
CEEweb office, Budapest
Faustine Defossez
EEB
Why the greening of the CAP?
• Environment
Agriculture
• A real need: a response to natural resources
depletion caused by the mainstream agricultural
development pattern
• A real demand: 77% of EU citizens asked for
stricter environmental conditions attached to
Direct Payment
• Public money for public goods
From a light green proposal to a
complete greenwashing
• Commission’s proposal: step in the right direction
but already unable to fully address the challenges
• Co decision= dilution of all greening elements
• Final result: greenwashing, complicated texts…
risk of step backwards on previous
environmental achievements
Co decision
GREENWASHING
Greening
Commission’s initial proposal
Final deal
-Mandatory greening
-weak link between basic payments and
greening + equivalence mechanisms
-Ecological Focus Areas 7%
-Grasslands protection at farm level
-Crop diversification 3 crops
-5% EFAs (inclusion of crops, short rotation
coppice)- maybe 7% in 2017/2018
-Grasslands protection at regional/national level
-Crop diversification 2 crops (between 10 and
30 ha) and 3 (above 30ha)
-EFAs for farms higher than 15ha + exemptions
of all permanent crops
-Everything for farms above 3 ha
Cross
compliance
Protection of carbon rich soils and
petlands, wetlands
Inclusion of WFD and Sustainable Use
of pesticides directive
No protection of carbon rich soils and petlands,
wetlands
Deletion of reference to WFD and Sustainable
Use of pesticides directive
Pillar 2
25% minimum spending option for the
environment
Flexibility between pillar 1 and 2: 10%
P1 to P2; 5% P2 to P1
30% compulsory spending for the environment
but includes LFAs and investments measures
Flexibility between pillar 1 and 2: 15% both
ways! Up to 25% from P2 t P1!
GREENWASHING
• 47% of EU farmland exempted from the EFAs
requirement
• 26, 4% of EU arable land exempted from
meaningful crop diversification
Some green shadow left in the
implementation?
• Delegated acts = further watering down of
greening (0,3 weighting factor for nitrogen:
0,7 in 2015)
BUT
• Flexibility left to Member states as regards
implementation
Implementation of the new CAP
Timing
• End of June publication of implementing acts
and delegated acts
• 1st of August notification from MS on
implemention of key elements from greening
• Implementation of the new CAP starts in
January 1st 2015
Where flexibility matters ?
• Cross compliance: GAEC implementation (E.g:
GAEC 7 on retention of landscape features)
• Greening: EFAs and environmentally sensitive
grasslands protection (in and out of N2000)
• Pillar 2- decent funding for conservation
(N2000, agri environmental measures, sub
programs..)
Some ingredients for success
• Involvement of Environment Ministries at
national level in greening implementation
• Effective consultation and participation of
environmental NGOs in cross
compliance/greening implementation processPillar 2 drafting
Some ingredients for success
• Advisory services!
Thanks!
Questions?