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REPORT (2025/2052(INI))

On the future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy

A-10-2025-0143

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development · Rapporteur: Carmen Crespo Díaz

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The report sets out Parliament's vision for the post-2027 common agricultural policy, calling for a larger, stand-alone budget and a two-pillar structure. It demands simplification, incentives over obligations, and support for farmers' incomes, generational renewal, and crisis management. It also addresses trade reciprocity, water resilience, innovation, and the role of agriculture in EU security.

Committee position. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development proposes a resolution setting out its vision for the post-2027 CAP, calling for a larger budget, simplification, and support for farmers.

Key points

  1. Calls for an increased, inflation-indexed CAP budget in the next MFF, kept separate from other funds, and opposes merging CAP into a single national fund.
  2. Insists on maintaining fixed income support for all active professional farmers, including pluriactive, and refining the EU definition of a farmer.
  3. Demands that imports meet EU standards on food safety, environment, and animal welfare, and that safeguard clauses be activated when needed.
  4. Calls for a comprehensive protein strategy to reduce the EU's protein deficit and for support for sustainable livestock farming.
  5. Urges stronger risk management tools, including a reformed crisis reserve and financial instruments outside the CAP, and opposes including agriculture in the ETS.
  6. Calls for a review of the Nitrates Directive to allow RENURE fertilisers and for a nutrient recovery strategy.
  7. Emphasises generational renewal and female entrepreneurship, calling for strategies, financial instruments, and support for young and women farmers.
  8. Calls for measures to address farmland loss and concentration, including land-matching services and long-term leasing.
  9. Demands simplification of the CAP, including a 'one-stop shop' for reporting and reduced administrative burdens.
  10. Calls for increased funding for innovation, research, and digitalisation, and for rapid approval of new breeding techniques.
  11. Urges the Commission to update POSEI allocations for outermost regions and to create a transport programme.
  12. Calls for a review of Natura 2000 areas and the Habitats Directive to reduce restrictions on farmers.

Who is affected

  • Farmers and farm workers across the EU, who would benefit from simplified rules, income support, and crisis measures.
  • Young and women farmers, who would gain from targeted support, training, and land access measures.
  • Farmers in outermost regions, who would receive increased POSEI funding and transport support.
  • Agri-food importers and non-EU producers, who would face stricter standards and potential safeguard measures.

Figures and deadlines

  • 9.1 million farms supported by the CAP, a 37% decrease from 14.4 million in 2005.
  • 77% of EU citizens agree the CAP ensures stable supply of safe, healthy food.
  • 93% of EU farms are family-run.
  • 57.6% of farmers were over 55 in 2020; under 35 represented about 6%.
  • 70% of raw materials for protein-rich feed are imported.
  • POSEI allocations have depreciated by at least 36% due to inflation since 2007.

Legal basis: Articles 13, 38, 39, 40, 42, and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union