Last July 9, 2026, the European Commission adopted the Delegated Regulation with the CRCF certification methodologies for agriculture, agroforestry, peatland rewetting, and afforestation. With these clear technical rules, the EU ensures a consistent, transparent and credible framework for the certification of carbon farming activities.

Over the past years, MARVIC has actively supported the development of the CRCF regulation through technical discussions, policy recommendations, expert consultations, and scientific evidence. MARVIC’s contributions included:

1. Four policy notes addressing key methodological challenges:
   • MARVIC recommendations on 8 key points regarding baselines, based on the amended version of the CRCF of 11/10/2023
   • Baselines: Discussion note from the MARVIC consortium
   • Double counts: Discussion on potential conflicting views between the EU CRCF and corporate reporting
   • Preliminary note: Recommendations to the CRCF methodology for mineral soils and agroforestry for strengthening the uncertainty reporting
2. Active participation in CRCF Expert Group discussions, including reviews and feedback on the draft methodologies for mineral soils and agroforestry, contributions to discussions on baselines, and presentations and recommendations on soil sampling during Expert Group meetings.
3. Technical exchanges with DG CLIMA, JRC, EEA and projects ORCaSa and MRV4SOC on baseline methodologies and implementation options.

This work was done by many of MARVIC partners, including Greet Ruysschaert (ILVO), Edouard Lanckriet (Agrosolutions), Eric Ceschia (INRAE), Jan Peter Lesschen (Wageningen Research), Sofia Biffi (Aarhus University), Andrea Ferrarini (UCSC), Liisa Kulmala (FMI), Iris Vogeler (Aarhus University), Gianni Bellocchi (INRAE) and many more.

The adoption of the methodologies marks an important step forward—but implementation, testing, and continuous improvement now begin.