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Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties

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1.10.2025 A100164/82

Amendment 82

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A100164/2025

André Rodrigues

Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties

(COM(2025)0236 – C10-0086/2025 – 2025/0236(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – para 1 – point 26

Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

Article 96a – paragraph 1 –– subparagraph 2 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

2a. In line with Article 119(11), Member states shall ensure that adapting expenditure between CAP budget lines to fund crisis payments under Article 78a does not entail de-funding of expenditure on preventive measures, decreasing susceptibility to or exposure to natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events.

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Justification

Prevention is always far cheaper and more effective than cure; given the scale and pace of climate change in this, the World’s fastest warming continent (IPCC), even the new crisis reserve may not be large enough to cover all the costs of damages. Investment is still needed to avoid or at least limit the scale of the damage.

1.10.2025 A100164/83

Amendment 83

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A100164/2025

André Rodrigues

(COM(2025)0236 – C10-0086/2025 – 2025/0236(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Recital 57

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

(57) GAEC standard 1, listed in Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, aims to maintain permanent grasslands to preserve carbon stock based on a ratio of permanent grassland in relation to agricultural area at national, regional, subregional, group-of-holdings or holding level in comparison to the reference year 2018, with a maximum decrease of 5 % compared to the reference year. Structural changes to farms that may occur during the programming period 2023-2027, in particular in the livestock sector. These changes may be accompanied by rapid changes in land use at the farm level, in particular to mitigate the impacts of climate change on feed and fodder availability, which may however only show in the available data with a delay. Such evolution of structural changes to farms may lead to variations in the annual ratio of permanent grasslands compared to the reference year 2018. In view of these variations and with a view to facilitating the implementation of GAEC standard 1, the maximum percentage of the decrease of the ratio of permanent grassland compared to the reference year 2018 should be increased to 10 %, to enable the Member States to take into account the developments during the programming period 2023-2027 and needs of farms, in particular in the livestock sector.

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1.10.2025 A100164/84

Amendment 84

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A100164/2025

André Rodrigues

(COM(2025)0236 – C10-0086/2025 – 2025/0236(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Annex I - point 3 - point a

Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

Annex III - entry ‘GAEC 1’

Text proposed by the Commission

the entry ‘GAEC 1’ is replaced by the following:

‘GAEC 1

Maintenance of permanent grassland based on a ratio of permanent grassland in relation to agricultural area at national, regional, subregional, group-of-holdings or holding level in comparison to the reference year 2018

Maximum decrease of 10 % compared to the reference year.’

General safeguard against conversion to other agricultural uses to preserve carbon stock

Amendment

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Justification

Since the European Commission did not provide the legislator with an appropriate impact assessment, the legislator does not have official numbers on the exact impact of the changes proposed. Based on estimates, this change could release around 125 million tons of additional CO2 across the EU, roughly corresponding to the total greenhouse gas emissions of the Czech Republic in 2022. In addition, grassland has many positive impacts on biodiversity.

1.10.2025 A100164/85

Amendment 85

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A100164/2025

André Rodrigues

(COM(2025)0236 – C10-0086/2025 – 2025/0236(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Annex I

Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

Annex III - entry ‘GAEC 4’ - fn ‘*’ - paragraphs 1 and 2

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

The buffer strips along water courses under this GAEC standard shall, as a general rule, and in compliance with Union law, respect the minimum width of 3 metres without using pesticides and fertilisers.

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In areas with significant dewatering and irrigation ditches, Member States may adjust, if duly justified for those areas, the minimum width in accordance with specific local circumstances.’

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1.10.2025 A100164/86

Amendment 86

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Report A100164/2025

André Rodrigues

(COM(2025)0236 – C10-0086/2025 – 2025/0236(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Annex I

Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

Annex III – GAEC 4 – footnote ‘*’ - paragraph 3

Text proposed by the Commission

Amendment

Member States may use for the purposes of this GAEC standard the definition of water courses laid down in national legislation, provided that that definition is in line with the main objective of this GAEC standard. Member States shall substantiate the definition of 'water course' using national water quality data. The Commission shall approve in a timely manner the use of the definition of 'water course' from the national legislation.

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