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DRAFT REPORT (COM(2025)0560 – C100169/2025 – 2025/0241(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034

AGRI-PR-787635

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development · Rapporteur: Norbert LINS

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The rapporteur's draft report sets out Parliament's first-reading position on the proposed regulation on Union support to the Common Agricultural Policy for 2028 to 2034. It amends the Commission proposal on farm stewardship, income support, rural development, young farmers, risk management, irrigation, cotton and the smaller Aegean islands. It keeps area-based income support as the central instrument, adds a mandatory 15 % redistributive payment, removes degressivity and lets Member States cap support above EUR 100 000. It sets a planned average aid per hectare of no less than EUR 130 and no more than EUR 200. It rewrites farm stewardship as a catalogue of protective practices chosen by farmers, with exemptions and temporary derogations, and exempts holdings of no more than 10 hectares from controls and penalties. It adds a Starter pack for young farmers and a single point of access for them. It adds new articles on irrigation investments, a crop-specific payment for cotton, crisis payments after disasters, WTO domestic support, the oilseeds memorandum, the smaller Aegean islands, CAP networks and the integrated administration and control system.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes to amend the Commission proposal to simplify the CAP, target funding at active farmers and family farms, reinforce support for young farmers and rural areas, and replace degressivity with redistributive income support.

Key points

  1. Farm stewardship becomes a catalogue of protective practices that Member States design and farmers may choose from, with exemptions and temporary derogations for weather, plant diseases or pest infestations.
  2. Member States must involve the agricultural sector in designing recognition measures and may assess compliance at cooperative level, while beneficiaries not established in the Union may have to provide information or submit to controls.
  3. Holdings with no more than 10 hectares of eligible area are exempt from farm stewardship controls and penalties, and beneficiaries should not be selected for repeated on-the-spot checks in the same year.
  4. Member States may provide support to other beneficiaries in environmental and climate priority areas they determine, and must support farmers in areas affected by or at significant risk of nitrate water pollution.
  5. New intervention types are added, including redistributive payment, support for young farmers with a starter pack, processing and marketing investments, cooperative farming, rural community investment, flood and coastal protection, and irrigation.
  6. Degressivity is deleted; Member States may cap area-based income support above EUR 100 000, the total amount is limited to EUR 500 000 per natural person per year, and the retirement-age cut-off is removed.
  7. A mandatory 15 % redistributive income support is introduced, paid from the first eligible hectare, with amounts and maximum hectares set at national or regional level.
  8. Small farmer support is simplified and exempt from farm stewardship requirements, protective practices, controls and penalties, and is optional for farmers.
  9. Agri-environmental, climate and animal welfare actions are supported, including pollinator-friendly practices, cooperation between farmers and beekeepers, and organic conversion exempt from action plans.
  10. Coupled income support is limited to a maximum of 12 % of the Union contribution for certain income support interventions, with a possible increase of up to three percentage points for protein crops, mixed crop-livestock farms or areas at risk of abandonment.
  11. Risk management support is granted only for losses above at least 20 % of average annual production or income, with alternative loss calculation methods and support for collective mutual funds.
  12. New articles cover irrigation investments with support rates up to 100 %, a cotton payment for Bulgaria, Greece, Spain and Portugal with national base areas and fixed yields, and crisis payments after disasters causing destruction of at least 30 % of average annual production.

Who is affected

  • Farmers and other beneficiaries, who face farm stewardship requirements, controls and penalties, but gain exemptions for small holdings and simplified schemes.
  • Young farmers, who get a dedicated minimum budget, a Starter pack, higher support per hectare and a single point of access.
  • Member States, which design protective practices, set exemptions, establish access points and may cap income support.
  • Bulgaria, Greece, Spain and Portugal, which grant a crop-specific payment for cotton under national base areas and fixed yields.
  • Greece, which implements specific supply arrangements and local production support for the smaller Aegean islands.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 20 000, threshold for simplified approval and disbursement of support for small investments.
  • EUR 100 000, threshold above which Member States that introduce capping must reduce area-based income support by 100 %.
  • EUR 500 000, maximum total area-based income support per natural person per year.
  • EUR 130 and EUR 200, minimum and maximum planned average aid per hectare for area-based income support.
  • 15 %, mandatory redistributive income support.
  • 12 %, maximum share of the Union contribution for coupled income support, with a possible increase of up to three percentage points.
  • 20 %, loss threshold for risk management support and for mutual fund intervention.
  • 30 %, destruction of average annual production required for crisis payments after disasters.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 43(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.