Brussels, 19.2.2025

COM(2025) 51 final

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL

on EAGF expenditure











Early Warning System 7-12/2024


1.Table provisional consumption on 31/12/2024

This report presents the provisional implementation of the 2024 budget for the EAGF on 31/12/2024, with details given in the below table.

A comparison is made of the implementation level with the corresponding appropriations included in the 2024 budget.    

2.Comments on the 2024 agricultural reserve  

In 2024, the agricultural reserve amounted to EUR 832 million, including a carry-over of EUR 315.5 million from Budget 2023. Five measures, totalling EUR 295 million, have been adopted 1 . For the third and fourth measures, no amounts were declared by MS in financial year 2024, and the last (fifth) measure was adopted at the end of the financial year. As a result, these measures, amounting to EUR 196.7 million, will exclusively be financed under the 2025 agricultural reserve.  

A total of EUR 465.5 million of payments have been declared under Budget 2024. The remaining appropriations of EUR 366.5 million will be carried over to Budget 2025.

3.Comments on the provisional implementation of the 2024 EAGF budget

The final implementation of the sectoral types of interventions under the CAP plans (08 02 02) is lower than budgeted (-18.6 % points) but significantly improved compared to the previous financial year (-78.7 % points end of 2023).

The sectoral under-implementation reflects amongst others Member States’ need for time to adapt to the policy in place since 2023, a cumulation of crises in past years, as well as changing demand patterns (on the interior and exterior markets).

On the contrary, the Market-related expenditure outside the CAP Strategic Plans (08 02 03) is higher than budgeted (15.1 % points), compensating to a large extent the under-implementation under the CAP plans.

Despite year 2024 being the first year of implementation of the new direct payments interventions under the CAP plans, these schemes show an excellent implementation, very close to the budgeted amount (99.6 percentage points of the budgeted appropriations and assigned revenue).

The provisional expenditure of the 2024 EAGF budget, including estimated, fully implemented actions under direct management by the Commission until 31 December 2024, results in an over-execution of EUR 291.2 million (0.7%) compared to the budget's voted appropriations. Considering the available assigned revenue of EUR 896.5 million as well as the carry-over of EUR 315.5 million for the agricultural reserve, the total EAGF under-implementation amounts to EUR 920.9 million.

This overall EAGF surplus includes EUR 366.5 million from the agricultural reserve, which in accordance with Article 16(2), third subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 will be carried over to the 2025 agricultural reserve.

The remaining surplus of EUR 554.4 million translates into additional revenue assigned to the EAGF (C4) to be carried over from 2024 to 2025, reducing the amount of appropriations needed in the Budget 2025.

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 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2820 of 15 December 2023 providing for emergency financial support for the agricultural sectors affected by natural disasters in Greece and Slovenia, (OJ L, 2023/2820, 18.12.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/2820/oj  ); 

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/453 of 5 February 2024 on exceptional market support measures for the eggs and poultrymeat sectors in Italy (OJ L, 2024/453, 6.2.2024,
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/453/oj );

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1995 of 19 July 2024 on a temporary exceptional crisis distillation measure to address the market disturbance in the wine sector in Portugal in the marketing year 2024/2025, (OJ L, 2024/1995, 22.7.2024,

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/1995/oj );

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2030 of 23 July 2024 providing for emergency financial support for the fruit and vegetables sector and the wine sector affected by adverse climatic events in Austria, Czechia and Poland, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(OJ L, 2024/2030, 24.7.2024,

ELI:  http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2030/oj );

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2675 of 10 October 2024 providing for emergency financial support for the agricultural sectors affected by adverse climatic events in Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Italy and Romania, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(OJ L, 2024/2675, 10.10.2024,

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2675/oj).