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DRAFT REPORT (COM(2025)0553 – C100163/2025 – 2025/0237(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as regards the school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme (‘EU school scheme’), sectoral interventions, the creation of a protein sector, requirements for hemp, the possibility for marketing standards for cheese, protein crops and meat, application of additional import duties, rules on the availability of supplies in time of emergencies and severe crisis and securities

AGRI-PR-789874

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development · Rapporteur: Eric Sargiacomo

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The rapporteur's draft report sets out Parliament's amendments to the Commission proposal amending Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 on the common market organisation of agricultural products. It renames the 'protein crop' sector as 'leguminous crops', adds vinegar, oilseed, cotton and wool sectors, and creates a protein sector including dried fodder. It defines 'market disturbance' and 'severe market imbalance', replaces Article 7 on reference thresholds, and adds sugar, sheepmeat and goatmeat to public intervention. It revises the EU school scheme, sectoral interventions, marketing standards for cheese, protein crops and meat, import duties, emergency supply rules and securities.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes to amend the Commission proposal to clarify the subject matter, define market disturbance and severe market imbalance, rename the protein sector as leguminous, add new sectors, revise reference thresholds, expand the EU school scheme, make sectoral interventions mandatory for more sectors, and strengthen food security preparedness.

Key points

  1. Renames the 'protein crop' sector as 'leguminous crops' and includes dried fodder products in it, removing the dried fodder sector.
  2. Adds vinegar, oilseed, cotton and wool sectors to the list of products covered by the common market organisation.
  3. Defines 'market disturbance' as price fluctuations over 15% in three months or prices below 80% of full costs for six months, and 'severe market imbalance' as volume fluctuations over 15% in six months.
  4. Replaces Article 7 on reference thresholds, listing products covered and requiring the Commission to propose revisions by 31 December 2027 and every two years thereafter.
  5. Adds white sugar, sheepmeat and goatmeat to products eligible for public intervention, and allows public intervention stocks to be resold to Member States for emergency stocks or turned into biofuels after two years.
  6. Revises the EU school scheme to include nurseries, preschools and secondary establishments, allows higher education students, and sets maximum fat content at 35% with exceptions for nuts.
  7. Requires Member States to distribute solely products originating in the Union under the EU school scheme and allows redistribution to charities.
  8. Makes sectoral interventions mandatory for certain sectors, including wine, milk and pigmeat, with derogations where insufficient interest exists.
  9. Sets financing limits for sectoral interventions at 4.1% to 5% of marketed production, with increases for generational renewal, research, risk management or environment and climate measures.
  10. Adds marketing standards for yeast, rabbit meat, industrial hemp and hemp for extraction, and allows marketing standards for cheese, protein crops and meat.
  11. Authorises wine grape varieties Noah, Othello, Isabelle, Jacquez, Clinton and Herbemont, previously excluded, and allows Vitis Labrusca varieties and crosses.
  12. Requires Member States to establish national food security preparedness and response plans, review them every two years and notify summaries to the Commission every two years.

Who is affected

  • Farmers and producer organisations in the leguminous, wine, milk, pigmeat, apiculture and other sectors covered by sectoral interventions.
  • Children attending educational establishments participating in the EU school scheme, including nurseries, preschools and secondary establishments.
  • Member States, which must establish food security preparedness and response plans and may set up central stockholding entities.
  • Economic operators in the agri-food supply chain, including producers, processors and distributors, affected by transparency and stockholding rules.
  • Outermost regions, where interbranch agreements may be extended to all operators to improve food security.

Figures and deadlines

  • 15% price fluctuation over three months or prices below 80% of full costs for six months defines 'market disturbance'.
  • 15% volume fluctuation over six months defines 'severe market imbalance'.
  • By 31 December 2027, the Commission shall propose revisions of reference thresholds for speciality sugars, sheepmeat and goatmeat.
  • Reference thresholds should be set at 80% of the average of full production costs in the Union.
  • Products distributed under the EU school scheme shall not contain more than 35% fats, with an exception for nuts.
  • Union financial assistance for products with fat content exceeding 5% shall not exceed 20% of total assistance and national contribution.
  • Financing limits for sectoral interventions: 4.1% for producer organisations, 4.5% for associations, 5% for transnational organisations.
  • Support for setting up entities under Article 32(3) shall be up to 10% of turnover with a maximum of EUR 100 000 per year.

Legal basis: Article 294(2), Article 42, Article 43(2) and Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.