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CAP strategic plans: Approval process

At a Glance 15-06-2022

The delivery model for the post 2022 common agricultural policy (CAP) involves basic EU level policy rules and greater responsibility for Member States as to how they tailor their CAP measure toolboxes to local needs. The national CAP strategic plans drawn up to this end by Member States are now at the approval stage.

As part of the preparation of the EU budget for 2021-2027, the European Commission put forward a new set of regulations to shape the future EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on 1 June 2018. The proposal for a regulation on the financing, management and monitoring of the CAP provides the legislative framework for adapting the financing, management and monitoring rules to a new CAP delivery model. This seeks to achieve more subsidiarity and simplification, with greater responsibility given to Member ...

The European Commission proposed a reform package incorporating rules on the financial aspects of European Union (EU) farm policy in June 2018. Following lengthy talks on the reform, the text finally agreed by European Parliament and Council negotiators in June 2021 is scheduled for vote during the November II plenary session.

On 31 October 2019, the European Commission adopted a legislative package aimed at ensuring the continuation of the current common agricultural policy (CAP) until the legislation on the post 2020 CAP is in force. The package includes a proposal for a CAP transitional regulation setting out a number of adjustments to current CAP regulations, concerning their applicability beyond 2020 with new financial allocations. This proposal introduces transitional provisions and amendments that are necessary ...

In the context of the future EU multiannual budget, the European Commission put forward a proposal on the financing, management and monitoring of EU farm policy on 1 June 2018, as part of a CAP reform package of three legislative proposals. Since then, discussions have highlighted the need to maintain at least the current level of agricultural expenditure, as well as to simplify the procedures while adapting them to the future CAP delivery model. The CAP proposals are scheduled for debate and vote ...

This note assesses possible consequences of Brexit for the EU budget and the Common Agricultural Policy. It discusses the importance of the ‘Brexit bill’ and the loss of the British net contribution. Furthermore, it describes how the EU budget and spending on the Common Agricultural Policy can be adjusted to the new situation and estimates how the different options would affect EU Member States and their net balances.

The Common Agricultural Policy in figures

EU Fact Sheets 01-10-2017

The tables below show basic statistical data in several areas relating to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), namely: the agriculture and food industries in the Member States (Table II), the integration of environmental concerns into the CAP (Table III), the forestry sector (Table IV), CAP financing and expenditure (Tables I and V) and trade in agricultural and food products (Table VI).

The 2003 reform and the 2009 Health Check decoupled most direct aid and transferred it to the new single payment scheme (SPS) or the single area payment scheme for new Member States. A new regulation, Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, defines the direct payments system with effect from 1 January 2015.

CAP instruments and reforms made to them

EU Fact Sheets 01-06-2017

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has undergone five major reforms, the most recent of which were in 2003 (mid-term review), in 2009 (the ‘Health Check’) and in 2013 (for the 2014-2020 financial period). Initial discussions on the post-2020 CAP began in 2016.

Financing of the CAP

EU Fact Sheets 01-06-2017

For many years the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was financed from a single fund, the EAGGF (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund), which on 1 January 2007 was replaced by the EAGF and the EAFRD.