The European Parliament’s environment, public health and food safety committee is demanding shared competence – and even, in a number of instances, exclusive competence – on several Articles in two of the three legislative proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020, sources revealed on Friday 22 June.
The MEPs on the environment committee want scrutiny on national plans because the proposal strengthens the environmental and climate dimension of the CAP and on common market organisation provisions on wine and on quality labels.
The members of the agriculture committee are reported to consider that there is no justification for the demands and are planning only flexible collaboration with the environment committee on the proposals. If no amicable solution can be reached, it will fall to the chair of the conference of committee chairs, Cecilia Wikström (ALDE, Sweden) to arbitrate on 25 June – with the outcome probably more likely to go the way of the agriculture committee.
Sharing reports among political groups. The political coordinators of the agriculture committee agreed on 20 June that the EPP group should be in charge of the report on strategic plans, the ALDE group on the proposal on the financing, management and monitoring of the CAP, and the S&D group on the proposal on common market organisation. The committee has still to appoint the rapporteurs on the post-2020 CAP proposals. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)