In the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the EU and its Member States committed to implement more than 100 actions by 2030. This tool is designed to track that progress.
SUMMARY
EU NATURE RESTORATION PLAN
Bringing nature back to agricultural land
Updated on: 2023-04-03
Deadline: 2022
Summary: On 25 January 2023, the Commission published a revised EU Pollinators Initiative. It includes a revised Action Framework with 42 Actions, to be implemented by 2030. The revised pollinator initiative aims to (i) improve knowledge of pollinator decline, its causes and consequences; (ii) improve pollinator conservation and tackle the causes of pollinator decline and (iii) mobilise society and promote strategic planning and cooperation at all levels.
Links:
- EU Pollinators Initiative - revision
- Commission Communication on a Revised EU Pollinators Initiative
Main Actors:
COM
Chef de File:
AGRI
ENV
SANTE
Updated on: 2023-03-17
Deadline: 2030
Summary: The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the main policy to ensure that 10% of agricultural land is devoted to high-biodiversity landscape features. This will be provided for through conditionality (GAEC 9) and incentives (CAP Pillar 1 and Pillar 2). Trilogues on the CAP reform proposal reached agreement in June 2021. The Member States are working to present their CAP Strategic Plans. The Commission has provided guidance and is engaged in exchanges with the MS to ensure that CAP instruments and Strategic Plans provide support for measures to bring back agricultural area under high-diversity landscape features.
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Main Actors:
COM
MS
Chef de File:
AGRI
ENV
Updated on: 2023-03-23
Deadline: 2030
Summary: The Commission will constantly review progress on the target of 10% high-diversity landscape features on agricultural land and, if necessary, it may take measures to mitigate against undue impact on biodiversity, food security and farmers' competitiveness.
Main Actors:
COM
Chef de File:
AGRI
ENV
Updated on: 2021-12-08
Deadline: 2021
Summary: The EU Biodiversity Strategy and the EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy set the target to manage 25% of agricultural land under organic farming by 2030. The Action Plan on Organic Farming aims to promote the adoption of organic farming practices to achieve this target, as well as the development of organic products and demand for organic products. The Action Plan was adopted in March 2021.
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Main Actors:
COM
Chef de File:
AGRI
Updated on: 2023-01-17
Deadline: 2022
Summary: The Commission has provided country-specific recommendations, and it has engaged in a structured dialogue with the Member States to encourage that their national CAP strategic plans comply with the EU objectives and that they set explicit national values for the relevant targets of the Biodiversity Strategy and the Farm to Fork Strategy, to be supported by CAP instruments (as well as other relevant EU instruments).
Links:
- CAP Strategic Plans
- Enhancing agricultural biodiversity
- Approved CAP Strategic Plans by country
- Commission Observation Letters on the CAP Strategic Plans
Main Actors:
COM
Chef de File:
AGRI
Updated on: 2023-03-23
Deadline: 2027
Summary: The Commission will has been working encourage with the Member States to promote agroforestry in their CAP strategic plans and will ensure, when assessing these plans, that sufficient agroforestry measures are included.
Main Actors:
COM
MS
Chef de File:
AGRI
ENV
Forest quantity, health and resilience
Updated on: 2021-12-09
Deadline: 2021
Summary: The new EU forest strategy for 2030 was adopted in July 2021. Its implementation will contribute to achieving the EU biodiversity and climate objectives. The strategy is accompanied by two staff working documents, on the Stakeholder Consultation and Evidence Base, and on the 3 Billion Tree Planting Pledge for 2030.
Links:
- EU Forest Strategy
- Stakeholder Consultation and Evidence Base
- The 3 Billion Tree Planting Pledge for 2030
Main Actors:
COM
Chef de File:
COM
ENV
AGRI
Updated on: 2021-12-09
Deadline: 2030
Summary: Summary: The Commission is working with the Member States to ensure that afforestation and reforestation measures support biodiversity and promote closer-to-nature forestry practices. This includes the integration of relevant measures in the Member States’ CAP strategic plans.
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Main Actors:
COM
MS
Chef de File:
ENV
ECHO
AGRI
Addressing land take and restoring soil ecosystems
Updated on: 2022-07-14
Deadline: 2027
Summary: The Commission will work with the Member States to scale-up the adoption of sustainable soil management practices by land managers. This role of the farmer advisory services in accompanying the transition will be strengthened. The EU will also support research to fill current knowledge gaps on best practices, benefits and trade-offs for society and farmers. This action will be implemented as part of the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy and the new EU Soil Strategy.
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Main Actors:
COM
MS
Chef de File:
ENV
AGRI
Updated on: 2023-04-19
Deadline: 2030
Summary: The Horizon Europe mission on a Soil Deal for Europe will support research into solutions in the area of soil health and food, in line with the objectives and targets of the EU Green Deal and of the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the Farm to Fork Strategy. The Horizon Europe mission in the area of soil health and food has been validated by the Commission’s Project Group and will proceed to a preparatory phase before implementation. The DDL has been aligned with the time span of Horizon Europe.
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Main Actors:
COM
Chef de File:
AGRI
ENV
RTD
ENABLING TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE
Financing for biodiversity
Updated on: 2023-04-19
Deadline: 2022
Summary: The implementation of this action will operationalise the 'do no harm' principle under the Multiannual Financial Framework and NextGeneration EU. Biodiversity was addressed in the Commission checklist developed in the context of the evaluation of the national Recovery and Resilience Plans (Annex I of the RRF technical guidance) and followed also for the Cohesion policy programmes, as well as in the sustainability proofing guidelines developed in the context of InvestEU. Biodiversity will be integrated in upcoming work on operationalizing the ‘do no harm’ principle across other EU funds and programmes. As part of its ongoing work on environmentally harmful subsidies, the European Commission published in 2022 a study proposing a toolbox and a methodology for reforming environmentally harmful subsidies in Europe. This toolbox investigates the range of environmentally harmful subsidies and those that could be reduced or eliminated relatively easily, generating significant environmental and net fiscal benefits. A ‘Do No Significant Harm’ flagship is also offered in 2022 to Member States under the 2023 Technical Support Instrument (TSI). The Flagship aims at building Member States’ capacity to design and implement an environmental framework in the field of public financial management. It can support the development and piloting of national guidelines for the application of the DNSH principle, the integration of the DNSH principle into national public financial management processes, good practice exchanges and peer-learning.
Links:
- RRF technical guidance
- Sustainability proofing guidelines
- Phasing out Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
- 2023 Flagship Technical Support Project - Technical Support Instrument – Do No Significant Harm
Main Actors:
COM
MS
Chef de File:
AGRI
BUDG
ECFIN
ENV
INTPA
MARE
REGIO