Evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy from an environmental perspective: greening had little effect

• The 2013 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) had a positive but only minor environmental impact due to Greening • The proportion of fallow land increased as a result of the ecological focus area regulation, but remained well below the levels seen at the turn of the millennium • The requirements for crop diversification were relatively low: 81% of arable land would have already met the requirements before they were introduced • After Greening: The implementation of the original conditionality for set-aside (GAEC 8) could have almost doubled the proportion of arable land under fallow