Evaluation of policy measures in agriculture

Mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the EU Forest Action Plan

Final report
November 2009

This study, financed by the European Commission, was undertaken by the European Forest Institute in cooperation with the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, the Centre Tecnologic Forestal De Catalunya in Solsona and the University of Hamburg, Institute for World Forestry.

The study contains both an inventory of the implementation of the 18 Key Actions of the EU Forest Action Plan and an evaluation of its relevance, effectiveness, efficiency. It contains recommendations for the EU Forest Action Plan in the period until 2012.

The conclusions, recommendations and opinions presented in this report reflect the opinion of the consultants and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Commission.
 

Judgement on the quality of the evaluation report [pdf]

Full text [pdf, 1.9 MB]

Annexes [pdf, 1.5 MB]

Synthetic summary [pdf]

Executive summary [pdf, also available in ]

• Table of contents [pdf]
• Chapter 1: Introduction [pdf]
• Chapter 2: Structure of the forest sector in the EU and overview of the policy framework [pdf]
• Chapter 3: Methodology [pdf]
• Chapter 4: Implementation of the EU FAP [pdf]
• Chapter 5: Evaluation of the EU Forest Action Plan [pdf]
• Chapter 6: Conclusions and recommendations [pdf]