Amending CAP Regulations on Conditionality, Direct Payments, Sector Interventions and Rural Development
Summary
The European Parliament adopted amendments to Regulations (EU) 2021/2115 and 2021/2116 on 8 October 2025, modifying the Common Agricultural Policy conditionality system, types of direct payment interventions, sector-specific interventions, rural development measures, and annual performance reporting requirements. The amendments also address data and interoperability governance, payment suspensions, annual performance clearance, controls, and penalty frameworks.
What changed
The amendments modify the CAP conditionality system and direct payment intervention types under Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, while also revising data governance, payment suspension procedures, and penalty provisions under Regulation (EU) 2021/2116. These changes affect how agricultural payments are administered, reported, and potentially withheld or penalized.
Agricultural firms receiving EU farm subsidies should monitor implementation timelines and assess how revised conditionality standards and sector intervention rules may affect their payment entitlements and compliance obligations under the new framework.
What to do next
- Agricultural firms should review updated conditionality requirements
- Monitor implementation of new data and interoperability governance provisions
- Review revised penalty frameworks under CAP direct payment schemes
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P10_TA(2025)0213 – Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments, annual performance clearance and controls and penalties – Amendments adopted by the European Parliament on 8 October 2025 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports and Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 as regards data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties (COM(2025)0236 – C10-0086/2025 – 2025/0236(COD)) (Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading)
OJ C, C/2026/1544, 15.4.2026, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1544/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1544/oj
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