New Challenges, New CAP

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On October 3rd 2007, Birdlife International launched their vision for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy. Europe's rural areas face new and urgent challenges that the CAP must respond to: continuing biodiversity decline, unsustainable water pollution and abstraction, soil degradation, accelerating climate change and an ever-increasing demand for food, fuel and energy. "New Challenges, New CAP" is our vision for how the CAP can adapt and tackle these challenges. 

CAP Health Check

The CAP health Check is a mid-term review of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, currently under way.  BirdLife believes this opportunity must be seized to offer some real solutions to the CAPs current failings and to pave the way for a future EU sustainable land use and rural development policy. See below for the pdf of BirdLife's main Health check proposals or BirdLife's detailed response to the EU Commission Health Check consultation.

Related Links

• BirdLife's review of the 'Less favoured area scheme' in response to the European Commission consultation
• Report: Farming for farmland diversity in the EU: Gaining evidence for the EU Budget Review
• PDF: Summary of BirdLife's response on the CAP Health Check consultation
• PDF: Full version of BirdLife's response to the CAP Health Check consultation
• Publication: New Challenges, New CAP. BirdLife's vision for the future of the EU CAP