Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy

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to modernise and simplify the common agricultural policy (CAP) beyond 2020 (horizontal regulation on the financing, management and monitoring of the CAP). PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: the context in which the last CAP reform was decided in 2013 has shifted considerably. More specifically: (i) agricultural prices have fallen sharply as a result of macroeconomic factors and geopolitical tensions; (ii) the EU has become more open to global markets; (iii) the EU has made new commitments at international level, for example on climate change mitigation (through COP 21). The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted the report by Ulrike MÜLLER (ALDE, DE) on the propo sal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013. The committee recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the Commission's proposal as follows. The report proposes that Member States shall designate an authority at ministerial level responsible for: - the issuing, reviewing and withdrawing of accreditation of paying agencies; - the issuing, reviewing and withdrawing of the accreditation of the coordinating body; - the appointment, and revocation thereof, of the certification body. The Commission shall promote the exchange of best practices for the operation of governance systems between Member States. Where more than one paying agency is accredited, Member States shall appoint a public coordinating body, to which it shall assign the following tasks: - to collate the documents, data and information to be provided to the Commission and to send that information to the Commission; - to furnish the annual accounts, the annual clearance report and the performance report, by condensing and collating the data and documents submitted by paying agencies; - to take or coordinate actions with a view to resolving any deficiencies of a common nature and to keep the Commission informed of any follow-up; It is very important that the Member States have the limits concerning payments so that there is no possibility for those Member States who uses first to have the most. This reserve shall be established in the budget of the CAP to provide additional support for the agricultural sector for the purpose of market management or stabilisation and to respond promptly in the case of crises affecting the agricultural production or distribution. The appropriations for the reserve shall be entered directly in the Union's budget and deployed, in the financial year or years for which additional support is required. An initial amount of EUR 400 million in current prices shall be set up in 2021 in addition to the EAGF and EAFRD budgets, while further funds could be added each year together with any unused money from the previous year, until it reaches EUR…

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