Aligning Digital Trade Solutions with CAP Simplification and Digitalisation

The document is a policy input from the DigitalTrade4.EU consortium to the European Commission, offering recommendations on aligning the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) simplification and digitalisation efforts with broader EU digital trade and sustainability strategies. It advocates for leveraging digital tools—such as Digital Product Passports (DPPs), eIDAS 2.0, and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR)—to reduce administrative burdens, enhance traceability, support SMEs, and integrate environmental, social, and economic (ESE) data into agricultural value chains. The proposal emphasizes interoperability, green-digital synergies, crisis resilience through AI/ML, and policy coherence with the EU Competitiveness Compass and Green Deal.