The European Commission has failed to harness the potential of big data to analyse and then guide the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the European Court of Auditors regrets in a report published on Tuesday 28 June.
The Commission certainly holds large volumes of data relevant to the design, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP. However, for the auditors, the tools and data it currently uses do not provide it with all the elements necessary for informed policy-making at EU level.