Plenary Session: Transitional provisions for the support by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in the year 2021 (AGRI)

Transitional provisions for the support by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in the year 2021 (AGRI)

The Agriculture Committee voted on 28 April the report on the CAP transition regulation, which aims to enable a transitional period while negotiations on the future new CAP are still in progress.

In general, this report proposed a regulation in which the current CAP will continue for two years. In other words, we will have a transition that is both an enemy of small farmers and environmentally unsustainable. It does not propose anything new in terms of agricultural practices and does not address the problems of unequal direct payments between Member States (the so-called external convergence). Many MEPs would like to advocate a greener transition and a fairer distribution of funds, as the CAP represents around 35% of the EU budget (around €100 billion over 2 years), and should have the possibility of doing so.
For this reason, we have presented this objection to the rapporteur's request to negotiate directly with the other two institutions without first going through a plenary vote. The CAP is not exclusively an agricultural issue: our entire food system is at stake, with huge impacts on regional development, climate, biodiversity, and health.

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