The European Agricultural Fund For Rural Development helps to improve competitiveness for farming and forestry, protect the environment and the countryside, improve the quality of life and diversification of the rural economy and support locally based approaches to rural development.

European Maritime And Fisheries Fund supports the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy focusing on funding projects which promote a sustainable future for the fishing industry and coastal communities. In particular, focus will be on the rebuilding of fish stocks, reducing the impact of fisheries on the marine environment, and the progressive elimination of wasteful discarding practices. It will increase investment into small scale fisheries and aquaculture as sources for future growth and will support the improvement of fisheries data collection to allow decisions to be based on robust evidence. The fund will also increase EU support to fisheries control programmes to ensure that the rules on responsible and sustainable fishing are respected and complied with.

The "1st pillar" of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) aims at ensuring a decent standard of living for farmers and providing consumers with a stable and safe food supply at affordable prices. The CAP corresponds to support to farmers' incomes provided in the form of direct payments and market-support measures.The CAP structure is based around two pillars. Pillar I covers direct payments and market measures providing a basic annual income support to EU farmers and support in case of specific market disturbances, while Pillar II covers rural development where Member States draw up and co-finance multiannual programmes under a common framework.

The Life programme improves the implementation of EU environment and climate policy and legislation. The programme contributes to the shift towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon and climate resilient economy, to the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment and to halting and reversing biodiversity loss. The programme contents two subprogrammes: Environment and Climate Action.

The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) enables the Europan Union to demonstrate solidarity at Union level and to provide support to workers made redundant as a consequence of trade globalisation, as a result of an unexpected crisis or as a consequence of trade agreements impacting upon the agricultural sector.