Strategic Dialogue calls for big changes in EU farm funding
The Strategic Dialogue on Agriculture’s final recommendations suggest agricultural policy needs to fundamentally change. What does this shift look like?
CAP 2021-2027
Commission seeks to ease use of geo-tagged photos for farm checks
The EU executive proposed scrapping member states’ obligation to ensure that most farm monitoring is carried out using geo-tagged photos by 2027.
EU countries seal relaxation of CAP green requirements until 2027
The EU Council gave its final green light on Monday (13 May) to a relaxation of the environmental rules under the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which will apply until the end of the current period in 2027 despite vocal protests from green NG…
CAP simplification will get more and more complicated
Last week the European Parliament gave its final nod to a package meant to make the Common Agricultural Policy rules easier to apply for farmers and national administrations. But it is not the end of the CAP ‘simplification’ debate. It is just the begi…
Parliament pushes through changes to rules on grassland despite left-wing opposition
A group of left-wing MEPs on Tuesday (23 April) failed to block the Commission’s proposal to relax farmers’ obligation to preserve grassland areas, which they claimed would pose environmental risks.
Left-wing groups to push for keeping green rules for farmers
MEPs from left-wing groups in the European Parliament will try to make changes to the Commission’s proposal to relax some environmental requirements in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), to be voted on Thursday (25 April).
NGOs warn of ‘poisoned gift’ for farmers as Parliament votes to fast-track easing of green rules
As the European Parliament is paving the way for a swift approval of the relaxation of some environmental requirements in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2023-2027 period, NGOs are mobilising against the decision.
EU Council backs relaxation of CAP green rules, paving way for swift approval
EU countries endorsed a proposal to ease the environmental requirements of the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2023-2027 period, reaching a quick deal on the sidelines of Tuesday’s (26 March) EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council.
EU moves to speed up adoption of green conditions simplification for farmers
The measures to loosen some of the environmental requirements of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) could come into force in 2024, with the European Parliament speeding up the approval of the Commission’s proposal and member states broadly suppo…
EU Parliament’s agriculture committee calls on Commissioner to stand up for farmers
Members of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee sent a letter to Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski on Tuesday (20 February), seen by Euractiv, setting out six demands to ease farmers’ discontent.