- With the submission of its revised strategic plan, Germany has moved a significant step closer to implementing the EU’s landmark agricultural reform, yet neither farmers nor environmentalists are particularly convinced by the proposed changes.
- The plan includes some changes to the so-called GAEC standards – basic requirements that farmers must meet in order to receive the full amount of subsidies – as well as to the catalogue of eco-schemes that farmers can use to receive additional payments for voluntary environmental services.
- In his statements on the new submission of the strategic plan, Özdemir also referred to the next CAP reform.
Newly submitted German CAP plan falls short of expectations
