The European Commission (EC) has formally set up the European Board on Agriculture and Food (EBAF), in line with one of the recommendations of the final report of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture. The board will act as a consultancy operation through which the EC will gather policy advice from the industry. The EC now invites member applications from the farming sector, other actors within the food supply chain and civil society for “high-level” advice. However, some CSOs say it is “unrealistic” to expect the board to convene productively in time for the publication of the Vision for Agriculture and Food, which will be delivered in the first 100 days of the EC president Ursula von der Leyen’s second mandate.
