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DRAFT BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT (COM(2025)0560 – C100169/2025 – 2025/0241(COD))

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

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Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Victor Negrescu

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The Committee on Budgets sets out its budgetary assessment of the Commission proposal on Union support to the Common Agricultural Policy for 2028 to 2034. It warns that the proposed new financing model makes CAP funding uncertain and calls for a larger envelope of EUR 433,01 billion in current prices. It asks for a distinct, traceable rural development envelope, full external convergence of direct payments, a transparent budget nomenclature, scrutiny of any Unity Safety Net mobilisation, and robust monitoring and audit of CAP spending.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets concludes that CAP funding is too uncertain under the proposal and calls for a larger envelope of EUR 433,01 billion in current prices, a distinct rural development envelope, full external convergence of direct payments, a transparent nomenclature and stronger scrutiny and audit.

Key points

  1. The Commission proposes to replace the two-pillar CAP structure with ringfenced amounts, Member State-specific top-ups and co-financing, which the committee says raises concerns about predictability, visibility and the common nature of CAP financing.
  2. The committee criticises continued uncertainty in CAP funding caused by non-pre-allocated resources, flexible programming and variable co-financing rates, and stresses predictability, timely delivery and simplified access for farmers and rural areas.
  3. It calls for the CAP envelope to be increased from EUR 293,7 billion to EUR 433,01 billion in current prices to preserve the real value of support, strengthen food security and ensure the viability of rural areas.
  4. It says sufficient human and administrative resources must be available throughout the next multiannual financial framework for effective implementation, monitoring and control of CAP expenditure.
  5. It stresses that food security must remain a strategic objective of the Union and that maintaining agricultural production capacity in all Member States is essential for strategic autonomy, resilience and crisis preparedness.
  6. It calls for a clearly identifiable and adequately funded rural development envelope supporting territorial cohesion, generational renewal and rural communities, with expenditure kept visible and traceable.
  7. It recalls that full external convergence of direct payments remains a key CAP objective to reduce disparities between Member States, strengthen cohesion and ensure fair support conditions for farmers.
  8. It calls for a sufficiently detailed and transparent budgetary nomenclature, criticises the proposed merging of CAP and fisheries expenditure into a single budget line, and says the nomenclature must allow effective parliamentary scrutiny and oversight.
  9. It calls for any mobilisation of the Unity Safety Net to be subject to transparency and parliamentary scrutiny, including timely and comprehensive information to Parliament on its justification, expected beneficiaries and budgetary impact.
  10. It stresses that robust monitoring, performance, control and audit frameworks are needed to ensure CAP expenditure reaches final recipients, delivers on Union priorities and protects the Union's financial interests.

Who is affected

  • Farmers and rural areas: the committee says predictability, timely delivery and simplified access to CAP support are essential for them and for long-term investment decisions.
  • Member States: the committee wants fairer support conditions between them through full external convergence of direct payments.
  • The European Parliament: it should receive timely and comprehensive information on any Unity Safety Net mobilisation and be able to scrutinise CAP spending through the budget nomenclature.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 295,70 billion in current prices — the ringfenced financial envelope for CAP interventions set in the proposal.
  • EUR 433,01 billion in current prices — the stronger CAP envelope Parliament has called for.
  • EUR 293,7 billion — the figure the committee says the CAP envelope should be increased from.
  • 2028 to 2034 — the period for which the regulation would establish the conditions for Union support to the CAP.