Dear Ms Ursula von der Leyen,
Dear Mr Janusz Wojciechowski,
Dear Mr Virginijus Sinkevičius,
The Commission’s attack on the environmental conditionality of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is outrageous and unacceptable. The Commission is fast-tracking decisions based on election fever, promoting a hatchet job trick by the European People’s Party (EPP). The EPP is forcing a last-minute, no-negotiation opening up of a law for which they themselves were responsible for negotiating. The actions show a scandalous disregard for democracy and due democratic process, citizens, science and farmers. Citizens rightfully expect that policy makers make science-based decisions, in view of the public interest. Therefore, we ask the Commission to urgently withdraw their proposal to delete or weaken the majority of GAECs from the CAP conditionality. Public funds should be steered to nature- and climate-friendly practices with clear added societal value, and should be linked to ambitious result indicators, targets and timelines.
