The EU Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission will start negotiations on proposals to revise the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on Tuesday 10 November.
There is a plan to hold a trilogue before Christmas on each of the issues (strategic plans, common organisation of the market, horizontal regulation). The aim is to reach a final special agreement by Spring 2021, despite several issues dividing the EU institutions (see EUROPE 12589/15).
The level of ambition of the eco-schemes (ecological programmes), the terms for capping direct aid, the new control rules or the new cross-compliance provisions are the main ‘hot’ topics in the negotiations on the post-2020 CAP (see EUROPE 12588/10, 12586/7).
The new CAP should enter into force from 1 January 2023, after a two-year transitional period. The institutions still need to formally agree on the regulation on transitional measures for the CAP once the details of the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027 become known. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)