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• News: Guidance Document to the Member States on the Application of the HNV Impact Indicator

  IEEP has produced a guidance document for Member States on how to monitor changes in HNV Farmland and Forests - corresponding to a suite of indicators in the CMEF to assess the effectiveness of rural development ...

• Guidance Document to the Member States on the Application of the HNV Impact Indicator

  A guidance document for Member States on how to monitor changes in HNV Farmland and Forests - corresponding to a suite of indicators in the CMEF to assess the effectiveness of rural development measures ...

• Final report for the study on HNV indicators for evaluation

  IEEP has completed a project for DG Agriculture on HNV indicators for evaluation. This report defines the key terms surrounding the HNV concept, and suggests indicators to identify HNV Farmland and Forests ...

• EU and US Approaches to Key Climate and Energy Challenges

  IEEP and our partner the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have produced a series of papers on EU and US approaches to cap and trade systems; biofuels; and carbon capture and storage. These papers ...

• New paper: Towards the CAP Health Check and the European Budget Review

  IEEP has produced an authoritative analysis of the expected pathway to future CAP reform.The paper, written for the German Marshall Fund, unpicks the Health Check proposals, examines at the likely influence ...

• News: Climate change and the rural environment in a European context: Implications for land use and land use policy

  IEEP has written a background paper for the LUPG/BfN conference on 'Future Policies for Rural Europe. 2013 and Beyond', held in Brussels, 19 - 20 September.All four conference papers can be accessed from ...

• Evaluation of the application of Cross Compliance as foreseen under Regulation 1782/2003 - Part 1: Descriptive Report

  Under Regulation 1782/2003 Cross Compliance was introduced as a compulsory measure from the 1st of January 2005.All farmers benefiting from direct payments under the first pillar of the CAP may be subject ...

• Evaluation of the application of Cross Compliance as foreseen under Regulation 1782/2003 - Part 2: Replies to Evaluation Questions

  Under Regulation 1782/2003 cross compliance was introduced as a compulsory measure from the 1st of January 2005.All farmers benefiting from direct payments under the first pillar of the CAP may be subject ...

• Guidance on the maintenance of landscape connectivity features published

  IEEP played a key role in the production of a newly published guidance document on the maintenance of landscape connectivity features.The guidance, developed jointly by IEEP, IUCN and Ecological Solutions ...

• Towards the CAP Health Check and the European Budget Review

  The CAP Health Check proposals and the EU Budget Review are the focus of a paper written by IEEP for the German Marshall Fund. This informed discussions at a 'CAP Retreat', held in Brussels on the 3rd ...

• Warsaw Seminar Report: relationship between Common Agricultural Policy and Biodiversity

  This new report results from an international seminar on the relationship between the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and biodiversity held in Warsaw, Poland on 7 - 8 December 2006, which was hosted ...

• Climate change and the rural environment in a European context: Implications for land use and land use policy

  IEEP has written a background paper for the LUPG/BfN conference on 'Future Policies for Rural Europe. 2013 and Beyond', held in Brussels, 19 - 20 September.All four conference papers can be accessed from ...

• MEACAP: WP4 D11 Quantification of carbon gains of selected technical and management-based mitigation measures in forestry

  Forest ecosystems in Europe represent a manageable resource that can partly be used to offset emissions of CO2. In this report, we provide a quantitative analysis of feasible management measures in European ...

• New Issue of the Cross Compliance Network Bulletin Available now

  The Cross Compliance Network Bulletin presents the research to date of the Cross Compliance Network project. It includes a contribution from the European Environment Agency and short articles on topics ...

• Evaluation of the Less Favoured Area Measure

  The evaluation conducted by IEEP for DG Agriculture is expected to inform a review of the policy in 2010. It concludes that the policy, although regarded by some as anachronistic, is effective in addressing ...

• MEACAP: Potential for carbon sequestration in European agriculture

  D10a Appendix - This paper describes the potential for carbon sequestration in European agriculture and summarises the effectiveness of a number of carbon sequestration measures.

• MEACAP: Afforestation in Europe

  This report provides an overview of the policy context for activities promoting land conversion to forest. Requirements and rules surrounding forestry activities and the associated legal implications for ...

• An Evaluation of the Less Favoured Area Measure in the 25 Member States of the European Union

  The evaluation conducted by IEEP for DG Agriculture is expected to inform a review of the policy in 2010. It concludes that the policy, although regarded by some as anachronistic, is effective in addressing ...

• MEACAP: Efficiency of selected bioenergy production chains

  WP3 D10a - This report highlights the four main bioenergy production chains identified in a previous report (WP3 D7b). In this study they are assessed in terms of input and output flows related to energy ...

• MEACAP: Greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation costs of selected mitigation measures in agricultural production

  WP3 D15a - This report represents the final step in a series of MEACAP papers with respect to the evaluation of the greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential and costs of reduction options within agricultural ...