To support the decision-making process in the field of agricultural and rural policy, the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission intends to set up a series of five-years single framework contracts providing timely, high-quality, independent and robust analysis that would assist the following key processes:

• support to the evaluation of the CAP and its related tools and instruments,
• assessment in support of future initiatives in agricultural and rural policy,
• analysis of the agri-food sector,
• assessment of the European and international context in which agricultural and rural policy operate.

The analysis to be carried out under this FWC will be focused mainly on the social sphere of agriculture (young farmers, social and labour conditions, societal demands, modernisation and knowledge) and on rural areas conditions, and the related policies and public support and instruments; it may cover primary production as well as other parts of the supply chain (upstream and downstream, distribution, retail…) as well as transport and storage.