K souhrnnému rozpočtu Evropské unie na rozpočtový rok 2027 – všechny oddíly
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Výbor pro zemědělství a rozvoj venkova · Rapporteur: Wouter Beke
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This is the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development's draft opinion for the 2027 EU budget, addressed to the Committee on Budgets. It asks that the 2027 budget, the last year of the 2021–2027 multiannual financial framework, keep the common agricultural policy (CAP) adequately funded and prevent disruption to payments.¶¶¶ It opposes cuts to the CAP or using farm spending to fund other priorities, and calls for money to cut administrative burden, ensure fair farm incomes, strengthen the agricultural reserve and risk management, and support farmers facing high fertiliser prices.¶¶¶ It asks for funding for promotion programmes, border sanitary and customs checks under the principle of reciprocity, and support for sectors most exposed to trade deals.¶¶ It calls for rural development payments to match real needs, targeted support for young and new farmers, and investment in research, digitalisation, water resilience and a European protein strategy.¶¶¶
Committee position. The rapporteur proposes that the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development ask the Committee on Budgets to include these points in its resolution: keep the CAP adequately funded in 2027, oppose cuts, and fund simplification, risk management, rural development, young farmers, innovation and trade-related measures.¶¶¶
Key points
- Notes the Commission's 2027 draft budget and stresses that, as the last year of the 2021–2027 multiannual financial framework, it must ensure continuity, stability and credibility for EU policies, especially the CAP.¶
- Says agriculture is strategic for food security, rural viability and Europe's strategic autonomy amid geopolitical instability, climate pressures, global competition and market volatility.¶
- Demands that the 2027 budget ensure continuity and predictability for farmers and rural communities before the next multiannual framework, and prevent disruption to CAP payments, rural development programmes and investment commitments.¶
- Opposes cuts to the CAP or attempts to weaken it as a stand-alone common EU policy, and says farm spending should not be used to offset funding for other EU priorities.¶
- Warns that inflation, rising input costs, administrative burden and growing regulatory requirements reduce the real value of CAP support and harm farm competitiveness and profitability.¶
- Insists the 2027 budget fund the CAP simplification programme so as to cut administrative burden for farmers and national authorities, with tangible benefits at farm level.¶
- Calls for fair farm remuneration and viable incomes to stay central, sufficient funds for market stability and resilience, a robust and adequately funded agricultural reserve, and more support for risk management, insurance, early warning and veterinary and plant health measures.¶¶¶
- Highlights pressure from fertiliser prices, supply disruptions and reduced affordability of key inputs, and calls for support measures ensuring farmers' access to fertilisers and reducing the EU's vulnerability to external supply shocks.¶
- Calls for adequate funding of promotion programmes to boost EU agri-food exports and open new markets, and for funding of sanitary, phytosanitary and customs checks at external borders under the reciprocity principle, plus support for sectors most exposed to trade agreements.¶¶
- Reaffirms the importance of rural development funding for jobs, social cohesion, territorial balance and tackling depopulation, and says the 2027 budget must reflect real payment needs under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) to avoid payment delays.¶¶
- Calls generational renewal one of the most urgent structural challenges, noting that fewer than 12% of farm managers in the EU are under 40, and seeks targeted support for young and new farmers, including access to land, finance, training and innovation.¶
- Calls for more support for research, innovation and digitalisation in farming, preserved Horizon Europe funding for agriculture and rural innovation, balanced sustainability approaches, investment in water resilience, and funds for a strong European protein strategy.¶¶¶
Who is affected
- Farmers and rural communities: the opinion seeks predictable CAP payments, fair incomes, less administrative burden and support against input-cost and market pressures.¶¶¶
- Young and new farmers: targeted support is sought for access to land, finance, training and innovation.¶
- National authorities: the simplification programme should reduce their administrative burden.¶
- EU agri-food exporters and sectors exposed to trade deals: funding is sought for promotion and for adjustment support.¶¶
- Importers of agri-food products: border checks should ensure imports meet required production standards.