were among the topics of this year's spring workshop of the Working Group on Structural Policy of the German Evaluation Society (DeGEval), which took place on 30 June and 1 July at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research in Vienna.

Prof. Dr. Peter Weingarten has been appointed by Federal Minister Cem Özdemir for a renewed, third term of office on the Advisory Council on Rural Development (SRLE) at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

What are member states planning for the new CAP funding period? Regina Grajewski, Pia Rehburg and Stefan Becker, researchers at the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, provide a comparative view of the draft CAP strategic plans.