Support for forestry as part of the CAP Strategic Plan
Forestry is an integral part of rural development in the CAP Strategic Plan.
The funding of sustainable and climate-friendly land use comprises forest area development and the sustainable management of forests.
The CAP Strategic Plan supports sustainable forest management by promoting biodiversity and the adaptation of forests to changing climatic conditions as well as forest protection measures and the protection against natural hazards.
The following interventions of the CAP Strategic Plan are relevant to forestry:
73-03 Forest infrastructure - Central funding objects are:
- Construction or conversion of forest roads
- Necessary repair of forest roads in connection with calamity events
- Construction of and investment in timber yards
- Investments for protection against natural hazards
73-04 Forest management- Central objects of support are:
- Investments in silvicultural and/or biodiversity-promoting measures
- Investments in forest protection measures
- Measures to preserve and improve the genetic resources of forests
- Establishment of new or expansion of existing natural forest reserves or contractual safeguarding of ecologically valuable/rare forest areas/communities
77-02 Cooperation – includes, among other things
- Projects in the area of forestry cooperation, e.g. in the area of green care
78-02 Knowledge transfer for agricultural and forestry themes – includes, among other things
- Courses for in-service training in agriculture and forestry
78-03 Knowledge transfer for non-agricultural and forestry topics – Forestry-related funding objects within the scope of this intervention are:
- Plans (e.g. forest management plans, nature conservation plans, management plans)
- Monitoring, case studies, concepts, applied studies
- Protected area management and other area management
- Awareness-raising (e.g. information measures, excursions)
- Further training
The desire for administrative simplification has been taken into account with the thematic bundling of forestry funding. In addition, projects under the forest management intervention are approved on an ongoing basis without a selection procedure if exclusively projects with simplified cost options are settled.