Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

Ha. whereas the convergence of direct payments, both within and between Member States, is essential to guarantee fair support conditions for farmers and to ensure fair competition...

13. Notes that the use of biological control products requires different approaches, knowledge bases and skill sets, particularly regarding the care of beneficial species that act to protect crops;...

H a. whereas biological control methods can be combined with conventional plant protection methods, that also continue to play an important role in ensuring food security at the EU level;

21. Calls for the promotion of nutrition education in schools and school canteens, and the strengthening and expansion of the school schemes programme that encourages that supply of fresh,...

2. Calls for an increased and separate budget for the CAP, including safeguards and ring-fencing to ensure continuity and predictability of support, to ensure...

12. Stresses that, while agriculture contributes through the CAP to other policies and strategies, such as environment, energy, climate, biodiversity and regional development, it is relevant that...

46. Calls for a large investment package for research and innovation, which will be the only pathway towards a more sustainable and adapted agricultural sector respecting the climate targets...

P b. whereas organic farming plays a key role in achieving the EU’s environmental and climate objectives, delivering multiple public goods such as enhanced biodiversity, soil and water...

AG. whereas, while the focus on research for innovation in resource-saving processes and products is appreciated, progress needs to be made in developing the research capacity and infrastructure to...

45. Highlights the important need for the CAP, Horizon Europe and other supportive funding schemes to encourage farmers to invest in new technologies adapted to their farm size, such as precision...

31. Calls for strong support for EU farmers and foresters to boost the circular economy, prioritising an efficient use of all resources while contributing to the Union’s climate objectives...

1. Welcomes the Commission’s report entitled ‘A Vision for Agriculture and Food’ as well as the outcome report of the strategic dialogue on the future of EU agriculture as key guiding...

5. Stresses the importance of safeguarding direct aid, primarily for small and medium-sized professional farmers, under the CAP, regardless of their type of...

10. Notes that Member States face increasing and diverse risks; stresses, in this regard, that an appropriate increase in the agricultural reserve is necessary to cope with unpredictable market and...

S. whereas new rural value chains, respecting the EU’s sustainability criteria for the bioeconomy can offer good growth and job potential and new market niches for rural areas;

25. Stresses the need to reassess the cross-compliance requirements of the CAP in order to ease the administrative burden, reduce costs and avoid excessive implementation requirements, while...

– having regard to the forthcoming revision of the EU animal welfare legislation, including proposals on the protection of animals during transport, on-farm welfare, slaughter conditions and...

A. whereas the common agricultural policy (CAP) is one of the EU’s most well- established policies and is of global strategic importance in the geopolitical context, as part of the EU’s defence and...

Z a. whereas the stability of Europe’s agricultural systems depends on respecting planetary boundaries, including those related to climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater use, land-...

AB a. whereas the One Health approach recognises the interdependence of human, animal and ecosystem health, the future CAP must integrate this perspective systematically across all its...

39. Welcomes the cooperation agreement with the EIB Group as a promising model that can foster the creation of financial instruments for young farmers and water policies in all Member States,...

40. Recognises the efforts of CAP measures to bring young people into farming, particularly those in more peripheral rural areas; points out, however, that the administrative burden is excessive...

29. Urges the Commission to incorporate a water perspective into the post-2027 CAP in order to allocate more investment to boosting infrastructure so as to make agriculture more efficient and...

30. Calls on the Commission to include among its priorities the modernisation and digitalisation of sustainable irrigation, as well as the use of artificial intelligence and new water technologies...

AJ. whereas, on the basis of current experience, innovation and the implementation of efficient processes and systems can improve the yields, resilience, resource use and...

AQ. whereas the CAP must give due recognition to the important environmental benefits provided by certain sectors, such as protein crops, beekeeping, forests and extensive livestock farming,...

3. Stresses that food and agricultural production plays a strategic role in the new geopolitical context as an essential part of European security and sovereignty, stresses that this strategic...

4. Points out that cooperation and dialogue in the agri-food value chain are key to improving the position of farmers, promoting a more equitable distribution of margins and increasing the...

6. Calls for a CAP – especially Pillar II – separate from but closely coordinated with cohesion policies, to ensure that rural development policies and investments are neither affected nor...

– having regard to the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030,