As expected, on Monday 7 October at the meeting of the Committee of the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets on horizontal issues, the EU Member States approved the European Commission’s proposal to release €119.7 million from the 2024 agricultural reserve.
In detail, these amounts should benefit farmers in Germany (€46.5 million), Bulgaria (€10.9 million), Estonia (€3.3 million), Italy (€37.4 million) and Romania (€21.6 million), who suffered “exceptional adverse weather conditions” in spring and early summer. This EU support can be supplemented up to 200% by national funds and distributed by 30 April 2025 (see EUROPE 13488/3).
Under the 2024 agricultural reserve (with a total of €450 million), three grants have already been awarded for a total of €175.40 million (plus the €120 million). In total, almost two-thirds of the amounts were used. The text was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 10 October .
See the text: https://aeur.eu/f/du2 (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)