BirdLife's work on EU Policy - overview

In the following pages you can find out more about BirdLife policy positions and activities.

Presidencies of the EU - Find out more about BirdLife International's Priorities for the Spanish EU Presidency here

European Parliament - Find out more on BirdLife's 4 priorities for political reform 2009-2014 here

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Why EU policy matters to BirdLife - and how we work on it

Nature and biodiversity policy

• EU post-2010 biodiversity policy
• BirdLife publication 'Wellbeing Through Wildlife in the EU' (press release and download publication in various languages) 
• The EU Nature Legislation: a world-class framework for biodiversity action
  • Natura 2000 - Europe's top sites for nature and wildlife
  • Current campaigns to protect unique nature sites in Europe – and how you can help
  • Hunting of birds in the EU
  • Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the EU Birds Directive
• Birds as indicators of biodiversity

• Position paper and pages of the global BirdLife Partnership on climate change
• Climate Change and biodiversity
  • Adapting to climate change
• Renewable Energy Policy of the EU
  • Biofuels - why the EU needs to drop its biofuels target
  • BirdLife's position on wind farms (PDF 177KB)

• Agriculture in Europe - much more than just food production
  • BirdLife's vision for the future of the CAP
  • The CAP Health Check
  • Reform of the Less Favoured Areas (LFAs) scheme
• Conserving and managing Europe's forests
• Conserving Seabirds and reforming the EU's Fisheries Policy (coming soon)
  • BirdLife response to the consultation on the CFP reform (PDF, 115 KB)
  • 'Shadow" Action Plan for reducing Seabird bycatch (PDF, 252 KB)
  • Seabird bycatch Leaflet (PDF, 2.66 MB)
  • BirdLife position for the Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (PDF, 52,4 KB)
  • BirdLife's Global Seabird Programme

• EU Regional and Cohesion Policy (coming soon)
  • BirdLife Publication 'Growth, Jobs and Biodiversity - learning from practice' (PDF 2MB) and related news release
• Greening the EU's transport network: TEN-T and Natura 2000

EU external policies and global biodiversity

• Greening the EU's external development policy
• Report - Environmental tools in EC development cooperation (PDF, 1.57 MB)
• Report - Environmental sustainability within the new development agenda: opportunities and challenges for civil society (PDF, 470 KB) 

• Report - Environmental tools in EC development cooperation (full version (PDF,1.4MB)
• Leaflet - Environmental tools in EC development cooperation (EN version) (PDF 1.5MB)
• Leaflet - Environmental tools in EC development cooperation (ES version) (PDF 1.4MB)

EU Budget and other policies

• The EU Budget Review - Public money for public goods
• The Environmental Liability Directive