Subject: The attack of the Commission on the environmental conditionality of the CAP is undemocratic, outrageous, and threatens the legitimacy of the CAP.

For multiple reasons, the actions of the Commission are unacceptable: ● The Commission ignores the scientific consensus that the biodiversity collapse and climate crises are the biggest threat to farming and require urgent actions to avoid catastrophic consequences; the good farming practices targeted are actually climate adaptation. [...] We need to urgently tackle both the major contributions of agriculture to the climate crisis, environmental pollution and the collapse of biodiversity, and their effects on the ability to keep farming and food security. [...] The additional proposals in the non-paper of the Commission, which was kept hidden for the public, also include the very worrying deletion of the requirement that farmers must submit individual applications for aerial spraying of pesticides once relevant conditions are met, a requirement of the Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides 2009/128/EC. [...] - The final report of the Conference for the Future of Europe included the need for high environmental ambition in food production systems, and to drastically reduce pesticide use (2022) - The Eurobarometer survey on Food safety in the EU listed pesticide residues in food as the most frequently selected concern related to food safety (2022) - EU public consultation on the Common Agricultural Polic. [...] The fact that scientists, citizens and many other relevant stakeholders were not even consulted, questions the legitimacy of the decision-making process, the democratic values of the EU and the credibility of the Commission.