The EU CAP Network supported by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP organised the eleventh Good Practice Workshop on ‘Measuring what matters – Approaches to netting out CAP impacts’ in Bucharest, Romania on 16-17 October 2025. This workshop focused on the rationale, challenges, and key approaches for netting out CAP impacts.

Background

Measuring the impacts of the CAP is fundamental as the impacts show whether the CAP is achieving its objectives and delivering tangible benefits to farmers, rural communities, the environment, and society at large. At the heart of the 2023–2027 CAP programming period is the Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (PMEF), which places strong emphasis on outcomes and impact of the CAP. Therefore, the process of netting out CAP impacts, i.e. identifying and quantifying the changes that are truly attributable to the policy  distinct from other external factors, is essential to ensure that policy achievements are accurately assessed based on what is happening on the ground. 

Relating this to the Member States, per the Implementing Regulation (1475/2022), Member States must measure the contribution of their CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) to the nine specific objectives based on the impact indicators outlined in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, as well as to quantify the CSP contribution(s) to at least the nine common impact indicators set out in Annex III of Regulation (EU) 1475/2022. Furthermore, according to the EU-level CAP evaluation framework, the cost-effectiveness calculation should be based on net impacts, ensuring that assessments reflect only those improvements directly attributable to CAP interventions.  

Objectives of the Workshop

The overall objective of the eleventh Good Practice Workshop was to demonstrate and analyse approaches for netting out the impacts of the CAP. The Workshops’ specific objectives were to: