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Conseil national de l'expertise foncière agricole et forestière

CNEFAF

Créé par le décret n°2006-1345 du 6 novembre 2006, pris pour application des Loi n° 2001-602 du 9 juillet 2001art.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Bettina Doeser (Head of Unit Environment)

23 Jan 2026 · Exchange of views on the Roadmap towards Nature Credits

Response to Roadmap towards Nature Credits

29 Sept 2025

The National Council of Land, Agricultural and Forestry Expertise (CNEFAF) a French organization representing Land and Agricultural Experts and Forestry Experts welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a roadmap for nature credits. CNEFAF underlines the considerable potential of this mechanism as an instrument for recognizing and enhancing the ecosystem services provided by agricultural and forest areas. Nature credits can serve as an effective economic driver to promote and support management practices that maintain soil health, ensure the sustainable and multifunctional management of forests, restore and maintain wetlands and ecological corridors. To ensure both their effectiveness and credibility, nature credits should, however, meet a number of essential conditions: Be grounded in a rigorous, unified, and reproducible methodology, applicable at the plot scale; Require dual certification of both the financial amounts allocated as credits and the actions undertaken, accompanied by periodic monitoring of the effectiveness of ecological benefits; Prevent any drift towards compensation mechanisms that could be assimilated to licenses to destroy. CNEFAF calls for the establishment of robust regulatory frameworks and a territorially based approach, consistent with ecological and societal challenges, so as to guarantee the credible and lasting deployment of nature credits. Finally, the profession of Land and Agricultural Experts and Forestry Experts, grounded in its independence, professional ethics, and technical expertise, stands ready to assist the European Commission by actively participating in the working groups and expert panels associated with this initiative, thereby ensuring the transparency, impartiality, and reliability of the evaluations.
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