The Chair opens the meeting and the public hearing on caste-based discrimination, followed by expert interventions from the UN, civil society and EEAS on legal recognition of caste, supply-chain abuses, the situation in Pakistan, and current EU external action, and concludes with an initial round of MEP questions and detailed replies on how EU due diligence, GSP+ and funding tools should address caste-related human rights violations.
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.
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.
MEPs press for regulatory changes to enable greater use and valorisation of manure, including revision of the Nitrates Directive and recognition of processed manure as a resource, and seek clarity on the scope and instruments of the upcoming Fertilizer Action Plan. Others emphasise geopolitical roots of the crisis, oppose extra ETS‑driven fertilizer costs, and demand a comprehensive emergency agro‑food plan while highlighting dependence on critical chokepoints, recurring price shocks, gaps in EU fertilizer production, and the need to boost renewables and bio‑based fertilizers.
The Commission presents its initial assessment of the Middle East crisis on oil, gas and fertilizer prices and supply, warning of volatility and risks for food prices despite short‑term coverage of spring needs. The chair and first MEPs call for rapid EU financial support to farmers, denounce speculation and weaknesses in the reformed CAP, and criticise EU energy, gas and CBAM policies and the lack of autonomous fertilizer production strategy as key sources of vulnerability.
The Commission details how the Middle East conflict affects trade routes, energy and fertiliser prices, and the resulting cost and inflation pressures on EU farmers.
The Commission details the origin and scope of the ‘60% degraded soils’ indicator, explains the focus on farmer‑centred living labs and coordination with climate and water missions, and stresses available funding including for agroforestry while reiterating that the soil directive creates no new obligations for farmers. The chair then wraps up by underlining soil’s importance for food security, promising political support for disseminating the mission, and formally closes the item before opening the Middle East crisis point on the agenda.
After the Commission’s closing remarks on the Soil Mission, coordinators and MEPs question the scientific basis of the ‘60% unhealthy soils’ figure, the definition and land‑use coverage of soil health, the loss of dedicated CAP funding, and the links with One Health. Members also debate farmers’ role as soil stewards, irrigation, limits on land take and sealing, the risk of new burdens from the Soil Framework Directive, and the need for research partnerships and financial support to transfer best practices to farmers.
Structured economic dialogue on the macro impact of conflict‑driven energy shocks, implementation and flexibility of the new EU fiscal rules, support measures for households and firms, and medium‑term growth, competitiveness, RRF delivery and the euro’s international role, concluding with questions on windfall taxes, the escape clause and external diplomacy.
The Chair and Commission present the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, followed by political groups’ questions on CAP links, data, obligations and farmer involvement, and the Commission’s responses on implementation, funding tools, living labs and next steps before closing the agenda item.
Debate on CAP’s role in the next MFF and NRP fund, risks of renationalisation via coupled support, targeting of rural funding, EP scrutiny, and safeguarding common CAP tools, controls and farmer income.
MEPs and expert Régnier assess the shift to a blended CAP/NRPP model, warning about loss of a genuinely common policy, complex NRPP design, weaker safeguards and ring‑fencing, and the need for stronger EU‑level guarantees on co‑financing, governance and shared objectives.
Opening exchange with the FSB Chair on the state of global financial stability, focusing on non‑bank financial intermediation, private credit, stablecoins and digital money, plus related issues on AML/CFT, sanctions evasion and climate‑related systemic risks.
MEPs from several groups question whether NRPPs truly simplify CAP, warn against de facto renationalisation and loss of the two‑pillar structure and level playing field, and probe how Ukraine’s accession, budget limits and Green Deal conditionality should be reflected in allocation keys and governance.
The Chair sets the workshop’s objectives in the context of the next MFF and post‑2027 CAP, then expert Régnier and Mathews outline the proposed single co‑managed fund, its governance via NRPPs, national envelopes, flexibility margins and implications for preserving a genuinely common CAP.
The committee reports back on its mission to Poland, with the Chair and MEPs describing meetings on the CPK/Port Polska hub, high‑speed rail and multimodal infrastructure, the scale of EU funding, and links to military mobility, security, sovereignty and advanced defence‑related transport technologies.
EESC rapporteur Healy explains the Committee’s rejection of the Commission’s post‑2027 CAP/MFF proposal, MEPs largely back this critique while defending the CAP budget, two‑pillar structure and farmer support tools, and the closing exchange with the Commission contrasts calls for a standalone, strengthened CAP with the Commission’s integrated, competitiveness‑focused MFF approach before the Chair ends the meeting.
The Chair and Commission present the state of the EU–Switzerland Land Transport Agreement and Switzerland’s unilateral wagon‑check rules after the Gotthard accident, with MEPs questioning legal compatibility, interoperability, Alpine freight impacts and ERA’s role, and the Commission outlining limits of action, the institutional framework and next steps in the joint committee.
The Chair summarizes key priorities on prevention and climate adaptation over ex-post financial aid, highlights the geographical distribution of Solidarity Fund use, connects crisis response to labour support and EU budget militarisation, and foreshadows a possible study on prevention and geopolitical disaster response.
The experts respond with proposals for harmonised climate‑risk methodologies, differentiated co‑financing and technical assistance to improve adaptation quality, discuss integrating disaster risk in sectoral policies, and clarify the financial and procedural limits of EU solidarity under the new Facility and cascade, including access conditions, timelines and the need to define Parliament’s role and oversight.
The Chair and rapporteur De Meo present the evaluation of Regulation 1144/2014 and a draft implementation report, leading to a debate on simplification for SMEs, scope of eligible products, health and Green Deal consistency, geographical balance and the Commission’s justification of current budget, rules and product coverage.
MEPs from Croatia, Spain, Portugal, France and Poland welcome the study but raise concerns about over‑reliance on national envelopes in the cascade, insufficient prevention and protection of critical infrastructure, limited solidarity for broad economic impacts, complex access for final beneficiaries, cohesion trade‑offs, and risks that merged instruments, flexibility and procurement failures weaken real EU solidarity and firefighting capacity.
The TRAN committee hears the Commission’s midterm assessment of the EU road safety policy framework, covering trends, key risk factors, recent and planned legislation, funding and governance challenges, followed by a detailed Q&A with MEPs on speed management, infrastructure, micromobility, enforcement and the possible creation of an EU road safety body.
Further MEPs assess impacts on competitiveness, food security, sanctions and administrative burden for farmers, after which rapporteur Noichl and DG AGRI clarify the design of indicators, accountability mechanisms, transparency tools and the interaction with DNSH rules.
The Chair reopens the Budgets Committee meeting, situates the study in the post‑2027 MFF debate, and the experts present the evolution of EU disaster‑risk policy, explain the proposed four‑stage cascade mechanism and adequacy concept, quantify expected funding changes, and set out recommendations on prevention spending, preparedness‑by‑design, UCPM capacities, insurance backstops and the future solidarity line.
Introduction of the Commission proposal for a single performance framework and rapporteur Noichl’s draft opinion, followed by first reactions from political groups on climate spending shares, indicators, land‑ownership transparency and DNSH conditionality.
Chair opens the AGRI committee, adopts agenda and minutes, explains voting modalities and webstreaming, then conducts roll‑call and show‑of‑hands votes on farmers’ position in the food chain, the Horizon Europe opinion and EU‑Swiss agreements.
The Chair formally closes the hearing, underlining the diversity of national pension systems, the value of an open EU‑level debate, and thanking panelists, ECON members, the secretariat and interpreters.
MEPs question how to shift household savings into pensions while protecting consumers, followed by expert responses on transparency, advice quality, product design and the balance between EU‑level rules and national systems in closing the pension gap.
The ERTMS Coordinator calls for stronger centralisation, standardisation and political ownership of ERTMS, invites Parliament to champion the file and update its resolution, and the Chair then closes the morning sitting while outlining the afternoon TRAN/SEDE meeting on military mobility.
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