Source: European Parliament
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments made to Member States during the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), i.e. in financial years 2021-2024, are listed in the attached table[1].
While the Commission bears overall responsibility for the financial management of the CAP, most of the CAP budget (around 99.5%) is implemented under ‘shared management’ between the Commission and Member States. In the financial year 2024, 5.7 million farmers received CAP support directly, not counting all other beneficiaries.
On the second and third questions, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475[2] sets out detailed rules for the monitoring and evaluation of the CAP Strategic Plans, including the provision of information from Member States.
Under this regulation, Member States have to submit data to the Commission on CAP interventions and beneficiaries. The first deadline for data submission was 30 April 2025.
The Commission is currently conducting quality checks to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data collected. Given the volume of data the Commission estimates that the dataset will be ready for analysis by the fourth quarter of 2025.
Under the transparency rules for the CAP, Member States publish details of the beneficiaries of CAP payments[3].
- [1] For more details the Commission refers the Honourable Member to the annual financial reports on the European agricultural guarantee fund (EAGF) and the European agricultural fund for rural development (EAFRD): https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/financing-cap/cap-funds/financial-report-eagf-and-eafrd_en.
- [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1475/oj.
- [3] https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/financing-cap/beneficiaries_en.