Thirty years after their conception and adoption, European rural development policies are about to enter a new programming period, splitting away from the cohesion funds and showing, for the first time since the implementation of agricultural policies, real integration with the so-called first Pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The proposal for the new CAP from 2023–2027 includes some improvements through a new delivery model and organisational approach, which may reinforce future evaluations. As to overseeing the implementation of the CAP, the Commission proposed to move from a compliance-based to a performance-based approach. Nevertheless, we can highlight some elements that may weaken evaluation processes, with the risk of repeating past failures, as is the case in the current CAP programming period from 2014–2020. This article analyses the new framework proposed for the evaluation of the future CAP and is intended to promote a discussion on how to make evaluations more usable, useful and reliable for their users and evaluation practitioners. The analysis concerns only the rules for evaluation and does not discuss other specific monitoring, performance framework and control requirements, which are interrelated with evaluation.

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评估新的共同农业政策：改进规则

欧洲农村发展政策在其构思和通过三十年后即将进入一个新的规划时期，从凝聚基金中分离出来，并自农业政策实施以来首次显示出与所谓的第一支柱的真正融合共同农业政策 (CAP)。2023-2027 年新 CAP 的提案包括通过新的交付模式和组织方法进行一些改进，这可能会加强未来的评估。至于监督 CAP 的实施，委员会建议从基于合规性转向基于绩效的方法。尽管如此，我们还是可以强调一些可能会削弱评估过程的因素，这些因素可能会重复过去的失败，就像当前 2014-2020 年 CAP 规划期间的情况一样。本文分析了为评估未来 CAP 提出的新框架，旨在推动讨论如何使评估对其用户和评估从业者更有用、更有用和更可靠。分析仅涉及评估规则，不讨论与评估相关的其他具体监控、绩效框架和控制要求。