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.

Spravodajca stanovísk Európskeho výboru regiónov o reforme spoločnej poľnohospodárskej politiky a o agroekológii Guillaume Cros sa zúčastnil na verejnom vypočutí v Európskom parlamente, kde sa diskutovalo o európskej iniciatíve občanov „Skoncujme s klietkovým chovom“. Spravodajca na ňom zopakoval, že VR je proti klietkovému chovu vtákov a zvierat, ako to napokon uviedol aj vo svojom stanovisku na tému Reforma SPP prijatom v roku 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.

While COVID-19 has exacerbated Europe's food security vulnerabilities, current agriculture practices keep damaging the environment, provoking drastic biodiversity loss and emitting 10% of the EU's annual carbon emissions