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Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy

TA-10-2025-0189 · P10_TA(2025)0189 · PE770.187

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Parliament's resolution on the future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy (CAP) sets out its position on the reform, covering budget, income support, simplification, generational renewal, innovation, and sustainability. It calls for a dedicated, inflation-indexed CAP budget, rejects merging CAP into a single fund, and demands fair income support for active farmers, including young and female farmers. It urges simplification, reduced administrative burdens, and a review of conditionality, while maintaining high standards and ensuring imports meet EU standards. It emphasizes generational renewal, support for women, access to land, and mental health, and calls for increased funding for innovation, research, and digitalization. It advocates for a protein strategy, sustainable livestock, water resilience, circular economy, and opposes including agriculture in emissions trading.

Key points

  1. Calls for an increased, dedicated CAP budget indexed for inflation in the next multiannual financial framework, and rejects merging CAP funds into a single national fund.
  2. Demands maintaining fixed income support for active farmers, with fair distribution and increased support for vulnerable groups like young, female, and small farmers.
  3. Urges simplification of the CAP, including a 'one-stop shop' for reporting, and calls for impact assessments before new regulations.
  4. Calls for imports to meet the same food safety, environmental, and animal welfare standards as EU products, and for safeguard clauses in trade agreements.
  5. Stresses the need for generational renewal, including support for young farmers up to age 45, and for addressing barriers for women in agriculture.
  6. Calls for measures to improve access to land, including land-matching services and long-term leasing, and for an EU observatory on farmland.
  7. Emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive protein strategy to reduce the EU's protein deficit and support sustainable livestock farming.
  8. Urges integration of water resilience into the CAP, including investment in irrigation infrastructure and use of non-conventional water sources.
  9. Calls for increased funding for innovation, research, and digitalization, including support for new breeding techniques and farmer data ownership.
  10. Opposes including agriculture in emissions trading systems or green taxation, and calls for a review of the Nitrates Directive to allow RENURE fertilisers.
  11. Calls for a mental health strategy for farmers and for improved working conditions, including training and leave.
  12. Calls for enhanced protection of geographical indications and for ending front-of-pack labels like Nutri-Score due to lack of scientific consensus.

Who is affected

  • Farmers and farm workers across the EU, who would benefit from simplified rules, fairer income support, and better access to risk management tools.
  • Young and new farmers, who would gain from extended age limits, financial instruments, and land access measures.
  • Women in agriculture, targeted with specific support to overcome barriers and ensure equal opportunities.
  • Outermost regions, which would see increased POSEI funding and a transport programme to mitigate costs.
  • Non-EU agricultural producers, who would face requirements to meet EU standards for imports.

Figures and deadlines

  • 9.1 million farms supported by the CAP, a 37% decrease from 14.4 million in 2005.
  • 77% of EU citizens agree the CAP ensures a stable supply of safe, healthy, sustainable food for 450 million consumers.
  • 93% of EU farms are family-run.
  • 57.6% of farmers were over 55 in 2020, while under 35 represented about 6%.
  • Food inflation reached almost 25% in 2022-2023, soaring to 50% in some countries.
  • Failure to adjust the MFF for inflation could result in a loss of up to 54% of the CAP, equivalent to EUR 250 billion by 2034.
  • POSEI budget allocations have not been revised since 2007, resulting in cumulative depreciation of at least 36%.
  • Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in the EU decreased by 7% between 2005 and 2023.

Legal basis: Articles 13, 38, 39, 40, 42, and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.