Support from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) aims to further improve the sustainable development of agriculture, food and rural areas and contribute to the achievement of the following general objectives:
a) to promote the development of a smart, sustainable and diversified agricultural sector ensuring food security;
b) to support environmental care and climate action and contribute to the achievement of the Union's environment and climate objectives;
c) to strengthen the socio-economic structure of rural areas.
The strategic plan is structured around 9 specific objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and one EU cross-sectoral objective, which is related to the modernization of agriculture and rural areas by stimulating and sharing knowledge, innovation and digitization and promoting their use in -largely by farmers through better access to research, innovation and knowledge exchange and through training. In order to further improve the sustainable development of agriculture, food industry and rural areas, the general objectives of the CAP are aimed at the economic fabric of rural areas, the sustainability and income of agricultural holdings, the better quality of performance in the field of environment and climate and strengthened socio-economic structure of rural areas.
The transition to a more performance-oriented policy requires the establishment of a robust performance quality framework that, based on a set of common indicators, will allow the Commission to assess and monitor the quality of policy implementation. The overall quality of policy implementation will be subject to a multi-year assessment based on impact indicators, while the annual monitoring of the quality of policy implementation will be based on the full list of result indicators.
Through the output indicators each year, expenditure will be linked to the quality of performance in implementing the policy; this annual process relies heavily on a list of end product metrics.
