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Engagement is often ad hoc and short-term, which limits continuity and long-term impact.\n\nThe roadmap proposes a more coordinated configuration of existing governance mechanisms to improve deliberation, policy impact, and alignment across levels. It examines the **five governance components** (three existing, two new) that together form the complementary EU agri-food governance architecture. 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Limited deliberation:** Participatory mechanisms exist, but are often dominated by well-resourced actors and disconnected from higher-level policymaking\n**2. Fear of ambitious long-term action:** food system reforms face strong resistance due to public sensitivity (e.g. prices, diets) and short-term political pressures.\n**3. Lack of coordination across governance levels** leads to fragmented and sometimes inconsistent implementation",{"type":45,"index":46,"variation":47,"URL":21,"imageURL":48,"title":49},"image_with_link",4,"title_top_image_bottom","https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/22dfef9a-217a-4679-ac21-6ab440cd086c",{"en_GB":50},"GOVERNANCE ARCHITECTURE",{"type":23,"index":52,"variation":25,"imageURL":21,"title":53,"description":54},5,{"en_GB":21},{"en_GB":55},"The EFPC architecture rests on **five governance components that complement each other**:\n1. [The European Board on Agriculture and Food (EBAF)](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_6205) articulating organised stakeholder interests at EU level and ensures policy feasibility. \n2. **Citizens’ panels** bringing a deliberative public-interest perspective through randomly selected participants from across the EU. \n3. [The Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR)](https://scar-europe.org/home) serving as a science–policy interface. \n4. (New) **EFPC Platform** grounding the EU-level food policies in local realities\n5. (New) **EFPC Coordination Body**, responsible for monitoring outputs, strengthening linkages, and ensuring follow-up. 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The platform would facilitate structured peer learning among local and national Food Policy Councils and act as an interface between local practice and EU governance—translating EU policy priorities into locally actionable strategies while feeding experiential knowledge, implementation challenges, and social innovations back into EU-level deliberations.\n- Creating the **EFPC Coordination Body** as a joint initiative of the European Commission and the EESC to develop **formal procedures for interaction** between EBAF, citizens’ panels, SCAR, and the Food Policy Council Platform.",{"type":23,"index":98,"variation":63,"imageURL":21,"title":99,"description":101},13,{"en_GB":100},"LEVERAGING EU PROCESSES",{"en_GB":102},"Several ongoing EU initiatives could support the gradual establishment of the EFPC:\n**Citizen mobilisation efforts**, such as the European Citizens’ Initiative “Good Food for All”, could help generate public attention and societal support for more inclusive food policy structures.\n**Food Dialogues** could create opportunities for cross-sectoral exchange and help broaden policy discussions beyond production-oriented perspectives.\n**Reform of MFF and CAP:** Multiannual Financial Framework negotiations and the revision of Common Agricultural Policy could be leveraged as opportunities to strengthen coordination between agricultural, health, environmental and social policy priorities\n**Electoral cycles**, such as the 2029 European Parliament elections, provide moments of political agenda-setting.",{"type":104,"index":105,"variation":106,"title":107,"button1":109,"button2":113,"button3":115,"button4":117},"button_group",14,"title_top",{"en_GB":108},"READ MORE",{"URL":110,"label":111},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/6f440945-76be-43a8-a2cf-3edf34353ebf",{"en_GB":112},"Roadmap",{"URL":21,"label":114},{"en_GB":21},{"URL":21,"label":116},{"en_GB":21},{"URL":21,"label":118},{"en_GB":21},{"type":120,"index":121,"variation":106,"title":122,"contact1":124,"contact2":130,"contact3":136},"contacts",15,{"en_GB":123},"CONTACTS - EPHA",{"imageURL":125,"name":126,"description":128},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/be4c22cd-8de1-4a9e-a246-23913e0c8100",{"en_GB":127},"Dr Milka Sokolović",{"en_GB":129},"Director General - milka.sokolovic@epha.org",{"imageURL":131,"name":132,"description":134},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/3fba25ec-ac14-457a-8776-904d8d3664c5",{"en_GB":133},"Polina Sokolkina",{"en_GB":135},"Projects Officer - polina.sokolkina@epha.org",{"imageURL":21,"name":137,"description":138},{"en_GB":21},{"en_GB":21},{"type":120,"index":140,"variation":106,"title":141,"contact1":143,"contact2":149,"contact3":155},16,{"en_GB":142},"CONTACTS - TMG",{"imageURL":144,"name":145,"description":147},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/a619a533-22cc-43db-9e3f-ad6f21cdc5d3",{"en_GB":146},"Olivia Riemer",{"en_GB":148},"Programme Lead – Food Systems Transformation & True Cost Accounting",{"imageURL":150,"name":151,"description":153},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/62095838-0cc0-41cf-aba5-b55af65a23d3",{"en_GB":152},"Paul Kleebinder",{"en_GB":154},"Research Associate",{"imageURL":21,"name":156,"description":157},{"en_GB":21},{"en_GB":21},{"type":45,"index":159,"variation":47,"URL":160,"imageURL":161,"title":162},17,"https://www.tmg-thinktank.com/","https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/3673387d-22d2-4e22-b704-5b1c7ad96638",{"en_GB":21},[],1780312797237]