Evaluation of Common Agricultural Policy delivery on its objectives - Related links

EESC Evaluation Reports

• NAT/930: Evaluation of Directive (EU) 2019/633 of 17 April 2019 on unfair trading practices in B2B relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain (Incl. Mapping of national UTP legislation)

• NAT/806: Evaluation on the CAP's impact on territorial development of rural areas (Information report)

European Commission

• Website on Key policy objectives of the CAP 2023-27

• Website on EU-level CAP Evaluation Framework

• Website on Socially Sustainable CAP

• Website on Rural Development

• CAP Specific Objectives Explained – Brief No. 1: Ensuring viable farm income

• CAP Specific Objectives Explained – Brief No. 7: Structural Change and Generational Renewal

• CAP Specific Objectives Explained – Brief No. 8: Jobs and Growth in Rural Areas

• Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 establishing rules on CAP Strategic Plans (December 2, 2021)

• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475 on the evaluation of CAP strategic plans and information for monitoring and evaluation (September 6, 2022)

• Cover note on Context and Impact Indicators (October 25, 2024)

• Cover note on Output and Result Indicators (December 27, 2024)

• Vision for Agriculture and Food (February 19, 2025)

European Parliament

• EPRS Briefing: Generational renewal in EU agriculture (May 21, 2025)

• Improving EU farmers' and agricultural workers' working conditions and mental well-being (December 2024)

• Environment and the common agricultural policy (July 2024)

• CAP strategic plans (December 2021)

• CAP horizontal regulation: Financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy for 2023-2027 (December 2021)

Other sources

• SWIFT Policy Brief: Towards a Gender-Transformative CAP (June 16, 2025)

• OpenAgri: The EU Rural Action Plan Explained (April 4, 2024)

• Jörgen Johansson and Mats Holmquist: "LEADER and rural development policy-What's the problem represented to be?" Journal of Rural Studies 108 (May 2024): 103287

• Institute for European Environmental Policy: Environmental and climate assessments of CAP Strategic Plans (April 12, 2023)

• EU CAP Network: Women in the New CAP (October 10, 2022)

• European Court of Auditors, Special Report: LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated (2022)

• European Coordination Via Campesina: How to apply social conditionality in the Common Agricultural Policy (May 11, 2021)

• EU CAP Network: Member State evaluations

• EU CAP Network: EU level CAP evaluation framework

• EU CAP Network: Publications (related to the specific focus)