<p>The EU gives priority role to the agriculture and forestry sectors in helping to maintain and improve biodiversity. Agriculture and forestry go hand in hand with the biodiversity on which they depend, and both have a big impact on its health. The efforts made to integrate biodiversity into agriculture and forestry in Europe are still not sufficient. By 2020, the EU wants to achieve a measurable improvement, compared to the EU2010 baseline, in the conservation of species and habitats depending on or affected by agriculture and forestry, and in the provision of their ecosystem services. The Netherlands has committed itself to nature objectives stated in the EU Biodiversity Strategy and thus indirectly to those in the Convention on Biological Diversity. The relevant conventions, directives and agreements have been implemented in national policy and legislation, including the policy documents Natural Capital Agenda (NCA, 2013) and the national nature vision The Natural Way Forward – Government Vision 2014 (NV), and since the decentralisation of nature policy in the provincial Nature Visions (PVs) and in the Nature Pact (NP, 2013), the agreement between the Dutch government and the provinces on the implementation of Dutch nature policy. In these NBSAPs several objectives are related to the main targets of the EU Biodiversity Strategy.o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a more effective and regional approach to agri-environmental management (NP);o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nature-inclusive agriculture; nature and agriculture as natural partners (NV);o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by 2020, sustainable agricultural management will be in place to ensure the conservation of biodiversity and natural capital (NCA).Furthermore, The Netherlands has an Agricultural Vision: Agriculture, nature and food: valuable and connected The Netherlands as a leader in circular agriculture (LNV 2018). In this Vision one of the objectives is related to the third main target of the European biodiversity strategy. It serves as a benchmark for assessing national policy plans; one of the criteria is that they should benefit ecosystems (water, soil, air), biodiversity and the natural values of farm landscapes.The three objectives listed above are all concerned with agriculture. Dutch forest and biodiversity polices are already integrated and most forests are included within the NEN and are managed accordingly.</p>