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Consultation responses, position papers and other policy documents

2015

• Wood Pastures Manifesto for Urgent Change to the CAP (2015):
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  • Téléchargez la Pétition en français (pdf)
  • Positionspapier herunterladen (pdf)

• Beaufoy, G; Blom, S.; Hartel, T.; Jones, G.; Popa, R.; Poux, X.; Ruiz, J. (2015) Europe's wood pastures: condemned to a slow death by the CAP? A test case for EU agriculture and biodiversity policy. (English booklet; Spanish version of the booklet)

2014

• 2014 Response to draft Irish SEA Materials consultation, incl. RDP measures proposals

• 2014 Response to Irish forestry State Aid measures consultation

• 2014 Response to the publication of the draft Irish 2014-20 RDP

2013

• EFNCP up-date on proposed CAP Delegated Acts affecting the eligibility of pastures

• Scientific research showing the efficient productivity of wood pastures with a high density of trees and shrubs

• EFNCP Comments and queries re DS/EGDP/2013/9 – rev.1 (21/11/13)

• Paper on a national, outcome-based Agri-environment Programme under Ireland´s RDP 2014-2020

• Support for amendments supporting permanent pasture farmers – a letter to MEPs

2012

• A submission on the Rural Development Programme for Ireland 2014 – 2020, High Nature Value Farmland Measures by EFNCP, Brendan Dunford and IT Sligo.

• CAP Greening proposals – GAEC and permanent pasture definition. Letter to Georg Haüsler, Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Cioloş.

• Direct Payments on Common Grazings - ensuring equity for active graziers post-2013. Paper for the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Crofting by EFNCP.

• EFCNP. Pour soutenir les éleveurs qui gerent les paysages pastoraux européens, changeons les règles sur les pâturages permanents dans le PAC

• EFNCP response to Commission Services concept paper on greening (of 11th May 2012)

• EFNCP. Apoyo a los ganaderos que mantienen los territorios pastorales europeos – modificación de las normas de la PAC sobre pastos permanentes

• EFNCP. Support the farmers who maintain Europe’s pastoral landscapes – change the CAP rules on permanent pastures

• Future National Upland Rural Development Measures – A Submission to Department of Agriculture Food & Marine by the uplands stakeholders’ group.

• Improving Pillar 1 greening and GAEC options for Permanent Pasture (PP)

• Improving Pillar 1 greening and GAEC options for Permanent Pasture (PP) 12th September 2012

2011

• Addressing serious problems with current CAP eligibility criteria and their impacts on farmers and the environment – letter to Commissioner Cioloş.

• EFNCP comments on EC’s proposed CAP regulations

• EFNCP, RSPB, Birdlife International. High Nature Value Farming: How diversity in Europe’s farm systems delivers for biodiversity

• European Habitats Forum (EHF) Detailed Response to the EU Biodiversity Strategy

• High Nature Value farming: how diversity in Europe’s farm systems delivers for biodiversity. EFNCP, RSPB, Birdlife International

• HNV farming – explaining the concept and interpreting EU and national policy commitments

• Inter-Service Consultation on CAP reform: concerns that greening of the CAP is being jeopardised and losing environmental focus. Joint NGO letter to Commissioners.

• Permanent Pastures and Meadows: adapting CAP Pillar 1 to support public goods

2010

• Beaufoy, G. & K. Marsden (2010): CAP Reform 2013 – last chance to stop the decline of Europe´s High Nature Value Farming? – Joint position paper by EFNCP, BirdLife International, Butterfly Conservation Europe and WWF.

• BirdLife International, EEB, EFNCP, IFOAM & WWF (2010): Proposal for a new EU Common Agricultural Policy. – Joint position paper, Brussels.

• EFNCP Proposals for “greening” Pillar 1 Permanent Pasture Premium

• EFNCP response to TREN Draft Consultation paper definition highly biodiverse grasslands under Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC

• EFNCP; Birdlife International; Butterfly Conservation Europe & WWF. CAP reform 2013: last chance to stop the decline of Europe’s High Nature Value farming?

• Enlarged advisory group on "CAP post-2013", 3rd June 2010: an EFNCP contribution, revised 14th June.

2009

• Scottish Government CAP Health Check Consultation 2009 – a response from the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism and Scottish Crofting Foundation

2008

• CAP Health Check Consultation 2007/8 – a response from the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism

• EFNCP response to the European Commission Green Paper on agricultural product quality: product standards, farming requirements and quality schemes COM(2008) 641 final