Brussels, 14.5.2025

COM(2025) 236 final

ANNEXES

to 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

{SWD(2025) 236 final}


ANNEX I

(1)in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the table ‘Annual performance clearance – OUTPUT Types of intervention and their output indicators’ is replaced by the following :

‘Monitoring – OUTPUT

Types of intervention and their output indicators*

Types of intervention 

Output indicators 

Cooperation (Article 77)

O.1 Number of European Innovation Partnership (EIP) operational group projects

Knowledge exchange and dissemination of information (Article 78)

O.2 Number of advice actions or units to provide innovation support for preparing or implementing European Innovation Partnership (EIP) operational group projects

Horizontal indicator

O.3 Number of CAP support beneficiaries

Basic income support (Article 21)

O.4 Number of hectares benefitting from basic income support

Payment for small farmers (Article 28)

O.5 Number of beneficiaries or hectares benefitting from payments for small farmers

Complementary income support for young farmers (Article 30)

O.6 Number of hectares benefitting from complementary income support for young farmers

Redistributive income support (Article 29)

O.7 Number of hectares benefitting from redistributive income support

Eco-schemes (Article 31)

O.8 Number of hectares or of livestock units benefitting from eco-schemes

Risk management tools (Article 76)

O.9 Number of units covered by supported CAP risk management tools

Complementary crisis payments for farmers under direct payments (Article 41a)

O.9a  Number of farmers benefitting from complementary crisis payments under direct payments 

Crisis payments for farmers under rural development (Article 78a)

O.9b Number of farmers benefitting from crisis payments under rural development

Coupled income support (Article 32)

O.10

Number of hectares benefitting from coupled income support

O.11 Number of heads benefitting from coupled income support

Natural or other area-specific constraints (Article 71)

O.12 Number of hectares benefitting from support for areas facing natural or other specific constraints, including a breakdown per type of area

Area-specific disadvantages resulting from certain mandatory requirements (Article 72)

O.13 Number of hectares benefitting from support under Natura 2000 or Directive 2000/60/EC

Environmental, climate-related and other management commitments (Article 70)

O.14 Number of hectares (excluding forestry) or number of other units covered by environmental or climate-related commitments going beyond mandatory requirements

O.15 Number of hectares (forestry) or number of other units covered by environmental or climate-related commitments going beyond mandatory requirements

O.16 Number of hectares or number of other units under maintenance commitments for afforestation and agroforestry

O.17 Number of hectares or number of other units benefitting from support for organic farming

O.18 Number of livestock units (LU) benefitting from support for animal welfare, health or increased biosecurity measures

O.19 Number of operations or units supporting genetic resources

Investments (Articles 73 and 74)

O.20 Number of supported on-farm productive investment operations or units

O.21 Number of supported on-farm non-productive investment operations or units

O.22 Number of supported infrastructure investment operations or units

O.23 Number of supported off-farm non-productive investment operations or units

O.24 Number of supported off-farm productive investment operations or units

Setting-up of young farmers and new farmers, rural business start-up or business development of small farms (Article 75) 

O.25 Number of young farmers receiving setting-up support 

O.26 Number of new farmers receiving setting-up support (other than young farmers reported under O.25) 

O.27 Number of rural businesses receiving support for start-up 

O.27a Number of small farms receiving support for business development’ 

Cooperation (Article 77)

O.28 Number of supported producer groups and producer organisations

O.29 Number of beneficiaries receiving support to participate in official quality schemes

O.30 Number of supported operations or units for generational renewal (excluding setting-up support)

O.31 Number of supported local development strategies (LEADER) or preparatory actions

O.32 Number of supported other cooperation operations or units (excluding EIP reported under O.1)

Knowledge exchange and dissemination of information (Article 78)

O.33 Number of supported training, advice and awareness actions or units

Horizontal indicator

O.34 Number of hectares under environmental practices (summary indicator on physical area covered by conditionality, eco-schemes, agri- and forest-environment-climate management commitments)

Types of intervention in certain sectors (Article 47)

O.35 Number of supported operational programmes

Types of intervention in certain sectors (Article 47)

O.36 Number of supported operational programmes

Types of intervention in the wine sector (Article 58)

O.37 Number of actions or units supported in the wine sector

Types of intervention in the apiculture sector (Article 55)

O.38 Number of actions or units for beekeeping preservation or improvement

* Data declared annually for their notified expenditure.’; 

(2)in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the Table ‘WTO DOMESTIC SUPPORT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 10’ is amended as follows:

(a)after the entry ‘Schemes for the climate, the environment and animal welfare (eco-schemes)’, the following entry is added: 

‘Complementary crisis payments to farmers under direct payments 

Article 41a 

8’ 

;

(b)after the entry ‘Knowledge exchange and dissemination of information’, the following entry is added: 

‘Crisis payments to farmers under rural development 

Article 78a 

8’ 

;

(3)Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 is amended as follows:

(a)the entry ‘GAEC 1’ is replaced by the following:  

 ‘GAEC 1 

Maintenance of permanent grassland based on a ratio of permanent grassland in relation to agricultural area at national, regional, subregional, group-of-holdings or holding level in comparison to the reference year 2018 

 

Maximum decrease of 10 % compared to the reference year.’ 

General safeguard against conversion to other agricultural uses to preserve carbon stock 

;

(b)the entry ‘GAEC 4’ is replaced by the following:  

 ‘GAEC 4

Establishment of buffer strips along water courses*

Protection of water courses against pollution and run-off

*    The buffer strips along water courses under this GAEC standard shall, as a general rule, and in compliance with Union law, respect the minimum width of 3 metres without using pesticides and fertilisers.

In areas with significant dewatering and irrigation ditches, Member States may adjust, if duly justified for those areas, the minimum width in accordance with specific local circumstances.

Member States may use for the purposes of this GAEC standard the definition of water courses laid down in national legislation, provided that that definition is in line with the main objective of this GAEC standard.’. 

ANNEX II

‘ANNEX XV

Table 1

MAXIMUM AMOUNT PER MEMBER STATE THAT CAN BE RESERVED FOR CRISIS PAYMENTS TO FARMERS referred to in ARTICLE 96A(1)

Member State

Calendar year 2025

Financial year 2026

Calendar year 2026

Financial year 2027

Belgium

17 331 805

17 331 805

Bulgaria

33 153 681

33 412 568

Czechia

33 122 850

33 122 850

Denmark

28 149 040

28 149 040

Germany

180 241 656

180 241 656

Estonia

8 705 240

8 791 062

Ireland

44 937 679

44 937 679

Greece

73 458 409

73 458 409

Spain

177 305 135

177 524 124

France

261 562 218

261 394 218

Croatia

20 162 329

20 162 329

Italy

149 173 516

149 173 516

Cyprus

2 142 542

2 142 542

Latvia

14 276 793

14 429 368

Lithuania

23 989 755

24 246 239

Luxembourg

1 351 754

1 351 754

Hungary

49 801 629

49 801 629

Malta

737 356

737 356

Netherlands

23 719 521

23 719 521

Austria

35 928 198

35 928 198

Poland

134 243 576

135 179 090

Portugal

35 146 807

35 410 328

Romania

89 072 611

89 899 353

Slovenia

7 251 007

7 251 007

Slovakia

20 090 491

20 146 020

Finland

26 326 118

26 380 675

Sweden

26 954 340

26 961 185

Table 2

MAXIMUM AMOUNT PER MEMBER STATE THAT CAN BE RESERVED FOR THE COMPLEMENTARY CRISIS PAYMENTS TO FARMERS referred to in ARTICLE 96A(2)

Member State

Calendar year 2025

Financial year 2026

Calendar year 2026

Financial year 2027

Belgium

23 109 073

23 109 073

Bulgaria

44 204 908

44 550 091

Czechia

44 163 800

44 163 800

Denmark

37 532 053

37 532 053

Germany

240 322 208

240 322 208

Estonia

11 606 987

11 721 416

Ireland

59 916 905

59 916 905

Greece

97 944 546

97 944 546

Spain

236 406 847

236 698 831

France

348 749 624

348 525 624

Croatia

26 883 106

26 883 106

Italy

198 898 021

198 898 021

Cyprus

2 856 722

2 856 722

Latvia

19 035 724

19 239 157

Lithuania

31 986 340

32 328 319

Luxembourg

1 802 339

1 802 339

Hungary

66 402 173

66 402 173

Malta

983 141

983 141

Netherlands

31 626 028

31 626 028

Austria

47 904 264

47 904 264

Poland

178 991 434

180 238 787

Portugal

46 862 409

47 213 771

Romania

118 763 481

119 865 804

Slovenia

9 668 010

9 668 010

Slovakia

26 787 322

26 861 360

Finland

35 101 491

35 174 233

Sweden

35 939 120

35 948 246’