The three reports constituting the future CAP were adopted by a large majority, despite uncertainties about the outcome of the vote. The ministers of the 27 member states had agreed on their roadmap.
From now on, on the basis of their respective proposals, MEPs, States and the European Commission will have to negotiate and decide by early 2021 on the rules that will apply from 2023.
The texts adopted by the European Parliament intend to make European aid granted to farmers conditional on compliance with enhanced environmental practices.
Eco-schemes – bonuses granted to farmers participating in demanding environmental programs – will be made compulsory, and states will have to devote at least 30% of direct EU payments to farms to them. The ministers of the Twenty-Seven recommend allocating only 20%.
MEPs also plan to devote at least 35% of the rural development budget to all kinds of environment and climate related measures.
Anxious to protect the smallest farms, they also voted to gradually reduce annual direct payments to farmers above 60,000 euros and to cap them at 100,000 euros.
Finally, the texts provide for granting greater leeway to those in power by letting them decide part of the distribution of European funds – on condition that they respect the EU’s environmental and climate commitments.
“The CAP will be a lever to achieve the ambition of the + Green Pact + (adopted by Brussels last spring)” and will allow “to support farmers in the green and digital transition”, welcomed the MEP Pascal Canfin ( Renew, Liberals).
Rapporteur Peter Jahr (EPP, right) welcomed the “explicit link established between the agricultural sector and the Paris agreement” on the climate.
However, some parliamentarians and many environmental NGOs displayed disappointment and anger.
“The CAP has been validated, it is a disaster, a text which does not respond to agricultural or environmental issues. We will remember that in 2020, Europe renationalized the CAP and missed the environmental transition”, lamented the Socialist MEP Marc Tarabella.
The Greens, who castigate a “historical error”, rejected the text, just like the European United Left – whose French delegation (rebellious France) denounced a “cynical communication exercise (…) falling within the scope of the lineage of profitability logic “.
“If this text stays there, we will have to wait seven more years before initiating the essential ecological and social transition. Agribusiness must rub its hands,” said Suzanne Dalle, of Greenpeace France.
With an already fixed budget of around 387 billion euros for seven years, the CAP is the EU’s biggest budget item.
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