The new green architecture of the CAP, including the new enhanced conditionality applied to both pillars of the policy, and the new green interventions under Pillar 1 – notably the eco-schemes – allow Member States to factor a greater level of environmental and climate ambition into their CAP Strategic Plans. [...] Annemiek Hautvast (CAP Strategic Plan Director, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the Netherlands) emphasised the important intergovernmental cooperation – between the Ministry, the provinces and the water boards (paying agencies) – supporting the drafting of the Dutch CAP Strategic Plan. [...] To this end, for each draft CSP, the Commission is carefully assessing the starting baseline and compliance with the conditionality requirements – to ensure a level playing field and the common elements of the Policy, while respecting the specificities of each different Member State – as well as the design of interventions and their financial allocations. [...] In the Netherlands during the design of the CSP, farmers collaborated with the Managing Authority, testing approaches and providing suggestions and feedback to inform the planning of the interventions. [...] Alex Datema (farmer and chairman of the BoerenNatuur, the Netherlands) shared the perspective of farmers, demanding greater freedom in the choice of intervention types and practices to be implemented at farm level to achieve the goals of the Policy.
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