The provisional political agreement reached on 25 June by the European Parliament and Council on the new Common Agricultural Policy, and since endorsed by EU Agriculture Ministers at their meeting on 28 June, introduces a fairer, greener, more animal friendly and flexible CAP.
Higher environmental and climate ambitions, aligned with Green Deal objectives, are to be implemented from January 2023. The new CAP will also ensure a fairer distribution of CAP support, especially to small and medium-sized family farms and young farmers.
Based on simpler rules set up at EU level, each Member State will prepare a strategic plan to implement the policy over the next five years. This will allow them to take local conditions into account and to focus on performance. Member States will have until the 31 December 2021 to submit their draft plans for approval by the Commission during 2022 and the new plans should enter into force from beginning of 2023.
