SPW-DGO3 is the public entity which manages Wallonia’s natural and rural heritages at the same time as it proposes avenues of development that complies with the government’s Declarations in the agricultural and environmental sectors. SPW-DGO3 is in charge of such important policies as • nature conservation, environment, agriculture, waste, air, subsoil management, soil protection, and the management and use of two major natural resources: water and Wallonia’s forests • monitoring of observance of sustainable development requirements in the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors; • preparation, monitoring, and implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) • co-ordination of research. As the administration in charge of agriculture and the environment, the SPW-DGO3 work affects a great many aspects of Walloon residents’ daily lives: the quality of the air that they breathe and the water that they drink, the production of the farm products that they eat, the quality of their environment, the management of the waste that they generate, pollution control and prevention, and so on.