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From MEP questions on CAP budget cuts and NRPP integration to the political clash over degressivity/capping and expert warnings on performance frameworks and 2028 timing, this block examines how the proposed CAP architecture would affect financing, farm structures and national paying agencies’ capacity to implement reforms.
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The Acting Chair launches panel two and Austria and Spain present their views on how integrating CAP into broader national partnership plans could weaken EU‑level ring‑fencing, complicate governance and audits, and endanger timely and targeted support to farmers.
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MEPs question farm organisations on capping, renationalisation risks and CAP design, followed by stakeholder proposals on capping rules, ring‑fencing and risk tools, and the Commission’s response outlining budget protection mechanisms, national flexibility and governance under the NRPP framework.
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Farm Europe presents its preferred CAP architecture, conditionality and risk‑management model, after which shadow rapporteurs from main political groups outline their red lines on the two‑pillar structure, EU vs national financing, budget size and implications for the single market.
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The Chair sets out the AGRI‑BUDG‑REGI joint mandate, legislative context and speaking rules for the hearing, followed by Copa‑Cogeca’s detailed position on CAP governance, funding structure, conditionality and incentives from the farmers’ perspective.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
MEPs from several groups and Director‑General Werner debate the causes of the fertilizer crisis, the roles of energy prices, sanctions and ETS/CBAM, and confront positions on trade measures, support for EU production, and regulatory changes, including Nitrates Directive revisions. The Commission outlines its defense of ETS/CBAM and planned support for low‑carbon and bio‑based fertilizers such as digestate and RENURE, spatial manure management, and potential blending mandates to enhance EU fertilizer autonomy.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the AGRI meeting, validates the agenda and gives the floor to the Commission to outline the reformed CAP framework, then formally introduces the Fertilizer Action Plan item where the Commission details the price and supply crisis context, short-term CAP and budgetary support, and structural reforms to enhance EU fertilizer autonomy before MEP interventions.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
From the Chair’s introduction of the IED omnibus livestock item through the rapporteur, shadows and Commission intervention, this block covers the institutional framing, competing political lines on rolling back 2024 livestock thresholds and cattle coverage, and DG ENVI’s defence of the existing scope and simplification mandate. It concludes with the rapporteur’s call for an AGRI opinion balancing environmental ambition with workability for family farms and competitiveness concerns.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
From the presentation of the AGRI-commissioned bioeconomy study through MEPs’ questions to DG AGRI’s response, this block covers business models for biomass use, CAP support instruments, regulatory barriers, and how to ensure viable, inclusive bioeconomy value chains for farmers.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
Introduction of the bluetongue delegated act under the Animal Health Law, with the Commission detailing objectives and changes, and coordinators examining testing options, vaccination strategy, funding implications and internal market risks.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Commission (DG ENER, DG ENVI) presents the delegated act on high‑ILUC‑risk soy and related RED/EUDR sustainability requirements, while coordinators challenge the soy classification and its implications for EU protein policy and intermediate crops.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair and rapporteur outline the timetable and priorities for AGRI’s opinion, followed by political group interventions on DNSH, CAP coverage, indicator balance and farmer burden, and a Commission reply that defends the horizontal framework, clarifies DNSH and indicators, and closes the performance regulation point.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the AGRI agenda item on the MFF single performance framework and the European Court of Auditors presents its critical opinion, after which coordinators and then other MEPs question the Court on indicators, climate tagging, DNSH, administrative burden and impacts on farmers and competitiveness.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair checks for additional business, announces the timetable for the next AGRI and joint AGRI–ENVI meetings, and formally closes the session.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
DG SANTE details biosecurity requirements, wild boar management, preparedness for an ASF vaccine, financing possibilities via CAP and emergency tools, and the use of movement restrictions and regionalisation to protect disease‑free areas and pig sector continuity.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the African swine fever agenda point and the Commission (DG SANTE) presents the epidemiological situation, surveillance and restricted zones, setting the context for the subsequent political and technical exchanges.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The European Court of Auditors presents its special report on EU olive oil controls, MEPs highlight enforcement and traceability concerns, and the ECA together with the Commission explain findings, accept recommendations and outline planned improvements on imports, contaminants, traceability and tasting panels.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
Opening of the meeting, verification of voting arrangements and roll‑call votes on the ‘marketing of forest reproductive material’ file, followed by sequential votes on the European Competitiveness Fund amendments and final adoption of the report.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Commission explains the WTO anti-dumping framework on EU pork exports to China, possible export diversification via trade agreements, then outlines monitoring of the EU pork market, African swine fever impacts, prospective market measures and livestock strategy before the Chair closes the pork item and announces voting and coordinators’ meeting details.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair and Commission introduce the agenda item on Chinese antidumping duties on EU pork, outlining export data, the Chinese investigations and issues of WTO compatibility, followed by MEPs contesting the legitimacy of the Chinese measures, criticising limited EU and WTO leverage, and calling for firm EU action, diversification and support to exposed producers and Member States.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
MEPs from different groups outline their positions on third‑country equivalence, residue thresholds, imports, logo use and the scope of the revision in light of the Herbaria ruling, while the Commission responds on dual trade regimes, transition periods, handling of technical issues via secondary legislation, and its interpretation of Article 29 before the rapporteur sets the roadmap and stresses legal certainty and simplification.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair and Commission set the scope and timetable of the limited revision of the organic regulation, explain the simplified procedure and sensitive issues, and present the Article 29 report on non‑authorised substances, including methodology, contamination sources, enforcement practices and the conclusion that no immediate legislative change is required.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
DG INTPA outlines EU humanitarian, development and diplomatic responses on global food security and previews the 19 May fertilizers action plan, after which Chair Waitz summarises key points, notes remaining technical questions and formally closes the AGRI agenda item and meeting.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
Further MEPs press for immediate EU measures such as strategic reserves, protection for small farmers and action on fertilizer plants and CO₂ policy, with Lario replying on diversification away from Gulf dependence, African fiscal constraints, and the need for mixed fertilization, soil health and resilient value chains.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
Presentation of the Global Report on Food Crises by IFAD President Lario, focusing on Strait of Hormuz risks, fertilizer price transmission and structural resilience, followed by coordinators’ initial questions on EU fertilizer sovereignty, African agriculture strategies and links to wider geopolitical choices.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Commission explains its proposal to harmonise hemp rules in the CMO and allow marketing of all plant parts under CAP‑compliant conditions, while coordinators and other MEPs discuss THC thresholds, industrial potential, processing support and health risks, and the Commission responds on agronomic benefits, regulatory scope, funding possibilities and advisory services.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The study author presents data and policy options on young farmers, the Commission outlines its generational renewal strategy and proposed CAP ‘starter pack’, and rapporteur Walsh, shadows and other MEPs debate budget ring‑fencing, land access, income, pensions, succession, gender equality and organic farming, followed by a Q&A with detailed replies from the study author and DG AGRI and Walsh’s synthesis and timeline for the report.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
Acting chair Waitz adopts the agenda and previous minutes, announces procedural items (interpretation, livestreaming, Rule 251 corrigendum, committee missions), and then frames the generational renewal item by explaining the scope of the young farmers study, its focus countries and its link to rapporteur Walsh’s forthcoming report and procedure.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair reiterates that the fertilizer and energy crisis must be treated as a wartime‑level emergency requiring swift EU‑level action, then formally closes the meeting and announces the next AGRI committee session date.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair stresses EU over‑dependence on imported fertilizers and energy, urging the Commission to move from analysis to immediate, concrete support to safeguard food security in the coming months.
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