EU: Final approval of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

The European Council has given its final approval to the simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The goal is to boost the competitiveness of European agriculture by reducing bureaucracy, supporting farmers, including small farmers and new businesses, encouraging innovation, and increasing productivity. The simplification measures could lead to significant reductions in administrative costs for both farmers and national administrations. According to the Commission's initial assessment, they could result in an annual saving of up to 1.6 billion euros for farmers and more than 200 million euros for the administrations of the Member States. The revised law constitutes the so-called "Omnibus III" legislative package, proposed by the Commission in May 2025. The package contains amendments to the Strategic Plan Regulation (SPR) and the "horizontal" Regulation on the Common Agricultural Policy. This is the second in a series of simplification dossiers on which the ...