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OPINION (2024/0176(BUD))

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 - all sections

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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development · Rapporteur: Daniel Buda

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The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development's opinion on the 2025 EU budget calls for increased funding for agriculture, addressing climate challenges, supporting farmers, and ensuring fair competition.

Committee position. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development suggests amendments to the 2025 budget, calling for increased funding and specific measures to support farmers and rural areas.

Key points

  1. Regrets the decrease in agriculture budget compared to 2024 and calls for an increase, citing climate, environmental, and political challenges.
  2. Recalls the objectives of Article 39 TFEU and asks that they be explicitly featured in the 2025 budget introduction.
  3. Notes CAP spending exceeds climate targets and requests surplus funds be used for CAP primary objectives.
  4. Calls for mental health supports for farmers, noting suicide rates are 20% higher in some Member States.
  5. Deplores effects of Russia's war on agriculture, calls for adjusted funding and better crisis instruments, welcomes safeguard measures.
  6. Criticizes the 2% deflator for not compensating inflation, notes real-term decreases in direct payments, and calls for addressing shortcomings in next MFF.
  7. Regrets lack of deflator for POSEI, calls for increased funds to cover inflation and production costs.
  8. Deplores EAGF budget cut of EUR 440 million, calls for maintaining promotion policy budget at least at 2024 level.
  9. Welcomes CAP simplification, calls for strengthening farmers' position in value chain, revising Directive (EU) 2019/633, and increasing budget for distribution networks.
  10. Calls for higher budget and support for young and new farmers, including female entrepreneurs, and better access to land and credit.
  11. Recalls importance of EAFRD funding and LEADER, calls on Member States to make full use of LEADER capacities.
  12. Notes EUR 450 million for agricultural reserve, calls for adequate funding, and insists on Parliament's role in its use.

Who is affected

  • Farmers and rural communities, especially in Member States bordering Ukraine, outermost regions, and young farmers.
  • Agricultural producers, cooperatives, and small and medium-sized enterprises in the agri-food chain.
  • Member States, which are called on to adjust funding, support cooperatives, and develop credit guarantee instruments.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 53,75 billion in commitments and EUR 51,12 billion in payments for agriculture in 2025.
  • Suicide rates among farmers are 20% higher than national average in some Member States.
  • 2% deflator of the MFF does not compensate for inflation.
  • EUR 440 million cut in EAGF budget for next three years.
  • EUR 450 million for agricultural reserve; EUR 516,5 million was necessary in 2024.

Legal basis: Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union