Time period to submit requests for amendments of CAP Strategic Plans

The European Parliament decided not to raise objections to the Commission Delegated Regulation of 21 May 2025 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/370 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the time period to submit requests for amendments of CAP Strategic Plans.

As a reminder, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/370 sets the time period for submitting requests for amendments to CAP Strategic Plans relating to the review of transfers of financial allocations between direct payments and the EAFRD and between direct payments and other sectors. These requests for amendments must be submitted by Member States between 1 January 2025 and 31 May 2025.

In the current context of ongoing instability in the agricultural sector across the Union several Member States are already encountering difficulties in deciding in the early months of 2025 on the need to review their transfer decisions taken in 2022. In order to give Member States more time to plan these transfers, it is planned to postpone the deadline from 31 May 2025 to 31 August 2025.

Parliament declared that it has no objections to the delegated regulation. It considered that, in the current context of ongoing instability in the agricultural sector across the Union, it is of the utmost importance to establish as soon as possible a new time limit of 31 August 2025 for the submission of requests for amendment as soon as possible, in order to allow for appropriate planning and consideration by Member States.