​​​Local communities' needs will weigh more in the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) investment decisions and regions will be among leading actors in shaping, implementing and assessing the national CAP strategic plans. This crucial result was achieved thanks to the work of the CoR, its intense cooperation with the European Parliament and – more recently - with the EU Commission. Regional and local leaders are ready to use the new CAP to deliver the Green Deal on the ground but urge Member States to set adequate rules to make this happen.

In two letters addressed to Maria do Céu Antunes , Minister for Agriculture of Portugal, who is holding the rotating Presidency of the Council, and to Janusz Wojciechowski , Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) call on the co-legislators to ensure a comprehensive and common European approach to the governance of regional interventions in the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The letters were sent ahead of the Agriculture Council's meeting (26 April) and ahead of a new round of negotiations between the European Union's Institutions on the future CAP. The Agriregions Coalition, AREFLH, AREPO and Euromontana have joined the claims of the CoR.

The rapporteur of the European Committee of the Regions' opinions on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and on Agro-ecology, Guillaume Cros, took part in a public hearing in the European Parliament to discuss the European Citizens’ Initiative "End the Cage Age", where he reiterated the CoR position against the practice of rearing birds and animals in cages, according to the CoR opinion 'Reform of the CAP' adopted in 2018.

The European Committee of the Regions has asked the Council and the Commission to fall in with the European Parliament's positions on CAP governance and common market organisation (CMO). It asked the co-legislators to bring the CAP into line with the Green Deal objectives and to step up EU agricultural policy's environmental goals.