Month: September 2025

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Strategic planning in the new CAP

The CAP Strategic Plans Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 established the governance and strategic planning framework for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2023–2027 period. It operationalised the “new delivery model”, granting Member States significant autonomy in designing and implementing CAP Strategic Plans, with the European Commission exercising oversight primarily through ex post performance clearance and conformity checks.

The Commission’s proposal COM(2025) 545 for a Budget Performance and Tracking Regulation (Performance Regulation) would replace 2021/2115 and embed the CAP within a horizontal EU-wide budgetary governance framework. This framework extends beyond agriculture, applying uniform rules for performance tracking, indicator use, data reporting, and transparency across all EU budget expenditure.… Read the rest

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How big will the CAP budget be in the next MFF?

The answer to this question is of course that we cannot know for certain at this stage. Under the Commission proposal the CAP will be merged into the proposed National and Regional Partnership Fund (NRPF) along with all other shared management funds where currently Member States receive pre-allocated amounts. Under the new arrangement, there would be only one pre-allocated envelope for Member States. There is a minimum ring-fenced amount for what is now referred to as CAP income support interventions (plus some fisheries support) of €295.7 billion. But the final amount allocated to CAP interventions will depend on how Member States allocate their NRPF resources in their NRP Plans.… Read the rest