The EAFRD, a new step towards a European forest policy?

Abstract

Integrating the forests to the CAP, within the territorial pillar, impacts the French national forest policy. The EU regulation for the FEADER, for 2007-2013, brings new financing rules notably for non market functions, as biodiversity, landscapes protection, and public recreation. The sylvo-environmental new measures, and the support to collective projects notably through animation, provide new means to implement innovative actions for the rural development. These opportunities have to be seized by the foresters, still shocked by the recent storms, and by the economic crisis they have maintained.