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This summary report describes the progress made by the Member States in implementing the RDP evaluation plans over the calendar year 2017. The summary is based on the screening of Chapter 2 of 115 Annual Implementation Reports (AIRs) submitted to the European Commission in 2018.

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The evaluation study VII - "Environmental and climate measures in the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020" highlighted the results and effectiveness of programme interventions, from the perspective of objectives aimed at conserving biodiversity, water and soil quality management, mitigation and adaptation to the effects of climate change, as well as the need for sustainable development. The contribution of the RDP was examined, through the analysis of environmental and climate measures: M10 - Agri-environment and climate, M11 - Organic agriculture , M13 - Payments for areas facing natural or other specific constraints, M15 - Forestry services, climate services and forest conservation, M15.1 - Payments for forestry commitments; M8 - Investments in the development of forested areas and in improving the viability of forests, M8.1 - Afforestation and creation of forested areas. General recommendations are also presented to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of the RDP, both for the end of the 2014-2020 programming period and for the future programming period.

The evaluation covers all the PNGRAT measures and their combined effects: sub-measure 17.1 (crop, animal and plant insurance); sub-measure 17.2 (mutual funds); technical assistance. The analysis relates to the implementation of the program within its scope of metropolitan application (measures not deployed in the French overseas departments), from its start in 2014 until the end of 2017.

This evaluation report presents the innovation-promoting impact of the RDP in three areas: R&D and innovation, collaborative, knowledge-sharing innovation, and horizontally, for all relevant measures.

This report was commissioned by the Scottish Government for Winning Moves to conduct a piece of research to explore the quality, focus and effectiveness of the Farm Advisory Service (FAS).

This document includes the updated fiches of the environment-related complementary result indicators for the period 2014-2020. These fiches have been updated by clarifying definitions of indicators and their units of measurement, updating data sources, adding additional information where useful and proposing simplifications in the methodologies.

This report summarises the major outcomes of the Good Practice Workshop, “Targeted data management for evidence based evaluation of RDPs 2014-2020”, which took place on 5 - 6 December 2016 in Bordeaux, France. This Good Practice Workshop provided a forum for the discussion and exchange of practices used in different RDPs in 2014-2020. The workshop was hosted by the Region Nouvelle Aquitaine and was well attended by more than 60 participants.

This Good Practice Workshop provided a forum for Managing Authorities, Paying Agencies, LAG-representatives, data providers and evaluators, to:

• discuss the approaches for data management in RDPs 2014-2020;
• exchange on the availability and quality of the data to be used for the AIR to be submitted in 2017 and beyond;
• reflect about potential data gaps and bottlenecks in data management in order to find solutions to overcome them.

Case studies from France, Finland, Italy, Austria and Denmark were presented during this workshop and are summarised in this report.