CAP needs root-and-branch change

115 leading environmental, health, and social NGOs are calling on European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to initiate an in-depth review of food production and consumption in Europe by conducting a Fitness Check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Read the letter from 115 NGOs to European Commisison President Jean-Claude Juncker

Read the EEB press statement

NGO signatories in alphabetical order (this list will continue to be updated as further NGOs add their names to the call):

1. AirClim
2. ACT Alliance EU
3. Action Aid
4. An Taisce
5. ARC2020
6. Arche Noah
7. Asociación de apicultores de la Comunidad de Madrid (Apiscam)
8. Asociación RedMontañas
9. Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza
10. Association of Italian Chiropractors
11. Associazione Italiana per l’Agricoltura Biologica
12. Austrian Caving Association (Verband österreichischer Höhlenforscher)
13. Austrian Green Farmers Association
14. Bee Life European Beekeeping Coordination
15. BirdLife Austria
16. BirdLife Cyprus
17. BirdLife Europe
18. Brot fuer die Welt
19. Brinzal
20. Bulgaria in Europe
21. Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds
22. BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany)
23. Centrul de Consultanta Ecologica Galati
24. CEEweb for Biodiversity
25. Centre for Sustainable Alternatives
26. Clean Air Action Group
27. Coastwatch
28. Compassion in World Farming
29. Confederación en Defensa de la Abeja en la Cornisa Cantábrica CODACC
30. Czech Society for Ornithology
31. Danish Ecological Council
32. Dansk Ornitologisk Forening
33. Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.  (Environmental Action Germany)
34. DNR (Deutscher Naturschutzring, German League for Nature and Environment)
35. Ecologistas en Acción
36. European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism (EFNCP)
37. Estonian Society for Nature Conservation
38. Eurogroup for Animals
39. EuroNatur
40. EUROPARC
41. Europe and We – Bulgaria
42. European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare)
43. European Central Council of Homeopaths
44. European Environmental Bureau
45. European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians (EFAD)
46. European Heart Network (EHN)
47. European Institute of Women’s Health
48. European Public Health Alliance
49. EU-Umweltbüro
50. Federación de Asociaciones de Apicultores de Cantabria FACC
51. Fédération Inter-Environnement Wallonie
52. Federation of environmental organizations of Cyprus
53. Federation SEPANSO Aquitaine
54. FERN
55. Foro Asturias Sostenible
56. France Nature Environnement
57. France Nature Environnement Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur
58. FRAPNA, Federation Rhone-Alpes de Protection de la Nature
59. Friends of the Earth Europe
60. Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania
61. GEOTA
62. Green Action Association (Zöld Akció Egyesület)
63. GREEN BALKANS – Federation of Nature Conservation NGOs
64. Greenpeace
65. Health Equalities Group
66. HOS/BirdLife Greece
67. Iniciativa Comunales
68. IOGT-NTO
69. Justice and Environment
70. L’Associazione Medici per l’Ambiente – ISDE Italia
71. Latvian Fund for Nature
72. Latvian Ornithological Society
73. Legambiente Onlus
74. Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO)
75. Lipu – BirdLife Italy
76. Lithuanian Ornithological Society
77. LPN – Liga para a Protecção da Natureza
78. MME/BirdLife Hungary
79. Natagora
80. Naturefriends International
81. Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V. (NABU)
82. natur&emwelt
83. Natuurpunt
84. Naturefriends Greece
85. New Water Culture Foundation (FNCA)
86. OTOP
87. OASIS Serbia
88. PAN Italy
89. QUERCUS, National Association for Nature Conservation (PORTUGAL)
90. Raptor Protection of Slovakia
91. Rhodope Mountains without Borders
92. Rural Platform for Slovakia
93. Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems
94. SEO/BirdLife
95. Sindicato Labrego Galego
96. Slow Food
97. Slow Food Youth Network
98. Smoke Free Partnership
99. Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves
100. SOL – People for solidarity, ecology and lifestyle, Austria
101. SOS/BirdLife Slovakia
102. Spanish Council of Land Stewardship
103. Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto – The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation
104. Sustainable Food Trust
105. Sustainable Water Network (SWAN)
106. Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
107. The Danish Society for Nature Conservation / Danmarks Naturfredningsforening
108. Unión Nacional de Asociaciones de Caza (UNAC)
109. Vereniging Natuurmonumenten
110. Vereniging Nederlands Cultuurlandschap
111. Via Campesina Austria
112. Vier Pfoten
113. Vogelbescherming Nederland
114. Welthaus Diözese Graz-Seckau
115. WWF