The European Parliament is expected to approve the three compromise texts between the institutions reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on Tuesday 23 November, unless there are major surprises, even though many critics in the Chamber are critical of the lack of ambition of the agreement reached (see EUROPE 12749/1).
The three texts, which will be debated and voted on, are three regulations on strategic plans for the CAP, the common market organisation (CMO) and horizontal regulation.
Opponents of the new CAP are making their voices heard. The Left Group has tabled an amendment to reject the package on the grounds that this CAP is in contradiction with the European Green Deal.
The Greens/EFA Group supports this amendment and will vote against all three regulations of the reform. For Benoît Biteau (Greens/EFA, France), in particular, this CAP is worse than the one voted in seven years ago, as it enshrines three anachronistic concepts, including “the renationalisation of agricultural policies or the disappearance of those not big enough to produce at the lowest cost”, (see EUROPE 12792/19).
The EPP, Renew Europe, S&D and ECR groups are on the side of the defenders of the reform as painfully negotiated. The French and German delegations in the S&D group should vote against the texts on the strategic plans and the horizontal regulation.
Letter from Mr Lins. “With this package, we are paving the way for a more sustainable and targeted agriculture, focused on environmental and climate protection, which strengthens rural areas and offers our farmers good prospects for the future”, writes European Parliament Agriculture Committee Chairman Norbert Lins (EPP, Germany) in a letter to MEPs asking them to support the reform.
Link to Norbert Lins’ letter: https://bit.ly/3nFCU3V
Link to the compromise text on strategic plans: https://bit.ly/3oL8s7I
Link to the one on horizontal regulation: https://bit.ly/3nI2QvQ
Link to the one on the CMO: https://bit.ly/30MPLs7 (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)