1. Workshop D 1.3.2 Natural heritage 2.1.3 CAP impact

2. General remark -Many links between the two projects (e.g. CAP policy influences nat. heritage)

3. 1) Analytical findings -both projects missed new CORINE-Data (to measure land-use change and to compare it with policy measures) -lack of time series made development of typologies difficult -Natural heritage should be promoted as an asset -good starting study

4. 2) Methods, Innovation CAP -impact of policy changes -case studies (impact of selected measures) -Literature (especially evaluation of LEADER II) -comparing agric. with Polycentrism/ESDP = new -data on expenditures etc. were transformed to NUTS 3 (= basis for correlation and regression analysis), this allocation of higher level data to NUTS 3 was new

5. 2) Methods, Innovation Natural heritage -patterns (because there were no time series) -land cover mapping -very general data = case studies are important -all 3 scales were related to spatial patterns = new -urban pressure was developed as a composed variable

6. 2) Methods, Innovation -concept of natural heritage: (not just) based on biodiversity -„territorial“ does not mean the same to DG Agri as it does to DG Regio => agricultural policy is just starting to get more „spatially oriented“

7. 3) Integration of ESDP goals and concepts -it was expected that 3.1 would deliver an operationalisation to all TPGs -how was Polycentrism integrated? Interlinkages between urban, transport networks and nat. heritage?

8. 4) Policy recommendations -general question: what means polycentrism for rural areas (for urban areas we know it; ESDP says, at least implicitly, that p. is basically good for rural areas, too) -Policy rec. should be distributed to sector policies

9. 4) Policy recommendations -complementarities to 1.1.2. do exist -the importance of regional development plans was stressed -Generally it was felt that the project was maybe too early as there will be much more data soon

10. 4) Policy recommendations -Coastal zones under pressure – possibility do implement european law to protect? = very difficult because of subsidiarity and diversity of shoreline -Pessimistic outlook (as regards CAP): „it‘s time to turn around an oil tanker“

11. 5) Further research -CORINE data (development of land cover) -look on new results of CAPRI model -Focus on new Member States -Promoting Nat. heritage as an asset (to come out of the defensive attitude) -Networking: LP-Seminars were positive -Timing of the projects should be improved (data availability)