EU Reaches Preliminary Consensus on Common Agricultural Policy as Spain's Farm Minister Hails European Character Preserved
Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food reported on October 27 that the European Union's 27 agriculture ministers had, the previous evening after some 12 hours of talks ending after 22:00 on October 26, unanimously adopted a partial general approach on the regulation setting the conditions for implementing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2027.
The agreement is partial: it covers only the implementation conditions of the proposed regulation, the Council presidency will still have to negotiate it with the European Parliament in codecision from January 2027, and the budgetary part depends on the European Council's decision on the 2028-2034 multiannual financial framework.
Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, called it a good agreement, stressing that the ministers had managed to keep the CAP as a European policy, preserving the common market with national flexibility rather than fragmenting it into 27 national policies.
The ministers had negotiated from the morning over farmer income support, market measures and cutting red tape. Planas said payments to farmers and the reserve for crisis management were among Spain's central concerns.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Spain
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Photo: 图：小麦。Panadería Marbán (wholesale bakery in Zamora, Spain). telf: (+34) 980 52 97 05 摄，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。 / Photo: Wheat. Photo by Panadería Marbán (wholesale bakery in Zamora, Spain). telf: (+34) 980 52 97 05, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
