ECORYS evaluated a memorandum of the biological agriculture policy for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. With this memorandum the Dutch government detailed on the instruments and objectives of the Biological Agriculture Policy for 2005-2007. The assignment of the project was to evaluate the memorandum on effectiveness, efficiency, effects and process.

The main questions were the following:

• To what extent has biological agriculture contributed to a more sustainable agriculture in general?
• To what extent has the policy contributed to the biological sector becoming a full economic sector? 
• To what extent has the policy contributed to the increase of the demand for biological products.
• To what extent has the policy contributed to the development and dissemination of knowledge from the demand side?

The project has answered these questions and the general conclusion was that the policy should be continued. Due to the lessons learned in this time-period the policy can be improved. This project provides a series of concrete recommendations to do so.