2. Conclusions
The fight against climate change and for the improvement of the natural resources exploitation deserves special
attention. This priority, related to the exploitation of the environment and of the rural areas, is focused around the
Axis 2 of the Rural Development Policy, is no longer sufficient to reflect the greatest future challenges. The accent
put on the health balance regarding the environmental challenges and the reprogramming of the Rural Development
Policy that followed suggest that these challenges cannot be integrated into a single specific axis. Moreover, it
seems quite obvious that the challenge of the climate changes has acquired a higher degree of generality and
importance than all the other priorities (water resources exploitation, development of an alternative energy and
energy savings, bio-diversity preservation). Consequently, it seems more adequate to make a sort of selection of the
environmental priorities as far as the needs of the Member States are concerned. The choice of the most adequate
measures should be made by each State in turn, which leads to the abandonment of the logic of grouping the
homogeneous measures per type of axis. The actions related to the conservation and turning to good use of the
environment should not be limited to a sub-group of measures (for example, agro-environmental payments, Nature
2000, etc), but need to be extended to all the measures of the future menu. The sustainable resource exploitation
must not be limited to Axis 2. In the future Rural Development Policies, the new environmental priorities should be
considered and all the measures could be associated.