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4.4.2        Supporting the transition to sustainable farming

The CAP reforms have resulted in establishing a complex “green” architecture composed of various instruments for promoting environmental and climate friendly farming practices. They can be separated between:

• Instruments mainstreaming environmental standards, i.e. “cross-compliance” in the current programming period and “conditionalities” in the new CAP
• Instruments incentivizing the uptake of more sustainable farming practices, i.e. “greening” measures in the current programming (to be included as environmental standards in the conditionalities in the upcoming period) and “eco-schemes” in the new CAP
• Instruments providing financial assistance to the transition towards sustainable farming, i.e. rural development payments.