The case of the French national strategic plan is a policy proposal which is considered to be rather “conservative” by most commentators in France. France has not capped allocation amounts at all and, keeping its allocation of subsidies close to the distribution decided in the 1992 CAP reform (more favourable to cereal-producing areas in particular), has only slightly made the level of aid per hectare converge among the different regions. Our report shows that French definitions of active, new and young farmers meet the UE definitions, and they are more precise concerning skills, training and professional experiences of farmers. But the EU and the French definitions are not helping to highlight new situations concerning the complexity of new farm projects and have no environmental criteria for promoting sustainable agriculture. The SWOT analysis shows interesting points on strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, but suffers from several contradictions, some strengths being also considered as weaknesses and some threats not being considered enough. More generally, the EU framework and the French strategic plan are very large, without a clear vision on the kind of agriculture the EU wants to promote and the EU Indicators are not efficient enough to evaluate the farmers' generational renewal, which should become a clearer objective. The financial analysis of SO7 also shows that the issues of farm setting-up and farm succession as it is currently framed strongly rely on two main measures: support for setting-up in agriculture and complementary income support for young farmers. These two measures are not adapted to the variety of projects that could allow ensuring generational renewal and the ecological transition and do not address the complexity of the different issues mentioned in the SWOT analysis. The stakeholders meeting highlighted 3 axes of recommendations: recommendations on SO7, in connection with the more general framework of the CAP; the potential improvement of consultation processes and policy implementation; the articulation among different scales and the creation of a more functional governance.