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In order to explore the Member States’s approaches on HNV farming in the new programming period the European Evaluation Heldpesk for Rural Development has (1) carried out an HNV survey in May-July 2016 and (2) organised an HNV Good Practice Workshop in June 2016, which provided a platform for representatives of DG Agri, Member States and HNV practitioners to discuss examples of good practices in identifying, monitoring and assessing HNV farming. This Working Document highlights the outcomes of this survey and the conclusions from the Good Practice Workshop organised in Bonn, Germany. 

This factsheet highlights the HNV map for Denmark developed by the Danish Centre for Environment and Energy at Aarhus University

This factsheet draws attention to a new targeted and cost-effective concept for HNV monitoring in Germany, which has been developed by the Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) in cooperation with private consultants.

This factsheet presents the main challenges for evaluating the contributions of the two most important sub-measures of the agri-environmental scheme (i.e. integrated and organic production) for GHG emissions.

The Guidelines: Assessment of RDP Results: How to Prepare for Reporting on Evaluation in 2017, is a non-binding document, which serves to complement the legal requirements relating to the AIR submitted in 2017. The document leads stakeholders through the phases of planning, preparing, conducting and reporting on evaluation for the AIRs to be submitted in 2017.

Updated fiches for Complementary Result Indicators No 13, 14, 15, 18 and 19

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• LEADER/CLLD Evaluation
• The 9th Expert Group on Monitoring and Evaluating the CAP
• Second Good Practice Workshop: 7-8 June in Bonn, Germany

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• The conceptual framework of LEADER/CLLD evaluation

The Guidelines: Evaluation of National Rural Networks 2014-2020 is a non-binding document, which serves to complement the legal requirements relating to NRN evaluations. The document clarifies the common elements related to NRN evaluations and gives a wider set of recommendations on how to formulate and manage NRN evaluations, both as a stand-alone exercise and as a part of RDP evaluations. 

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• High Nature Value (HNV) farming
• The synthesis of ex ante evaluations of RDPs 2014-2020
• Sharing experiences related to the ex post evaluation 2007-2013

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• The key features of HNV

Where data for a common context indicator is not available, neither from EU nor Member State sources, an estimation of the common context indicator or a proxy indicator should be used. In this working document, a definition of a proxy indicator is presented based on the related definitions used by the European Commission, the European Environmental Agency (EEA), EuropeAid and other relevant organizations such as FAO, UNDP and OECD.

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• Assessment of RDP results
• The European Evaluation Helpdesk’s first good practice workshop
• Preparing for the evaluation of NRNs
• New evaluation methods
• Yearly capacity building events

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• Self-assessment vs. evaluation
• EU data sources linked to the types of indicators