Policy Insights - CAP’s Green Architecture components

Green Architecture describes the CAP components that can be harmonised to provide a coordinated policy toolkit at EU and national levels supporting environmental and climate benefits for the EU. Policy priorities being supported by this Green Architecture address escalating risks linked to climate change. A fundamental feature of the Green Architecture policy framework is its blending of simplified voluntary and mandatory policy tools delivering annual and multi-annual funding options across the two Pillars of the policy.

The article offers useful details about the five key CAP components of the CSPs’ Green Architecture toolkit: Conditionality; Eco-schemes; Rural development interventions; Producer Organisations’ operational programmes; and Farm advisory services.

The text also explaines how CSPs coordinate this Green Architecture toolkit to provide synergies both across the CAP funding system and with other European Green Deal components - including objectives related to climate change in the Effort-Sharing Regulation, Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), and Member States’ Prioritised Action Frameworks on biodiversity, among others.