Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III

Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda

Added: 33a. Calls for specific programmes for farming to be stepped up with a view to fostering sustainable farming in every Member State and a farming industry capable of responding to the most pressing challenges, such as drought, the production shortfall and speculative increases in input costs, particularly by means of direct support for producers and, in the medium term, permanent support for green electricity and financing for small irrigation works, including the installation of ponds designed to retain water; calls for the decision to cut support under the small farmers scheme to be reversed; calls, further, for projects financed under the EU budget to foster short marketing channels and fair, stable and decent remuneration for producers and for the common agricultural policy to reflect fair distribution among countries, producers and types of production, doing away with the current disparities and benefiting in relative terms Member States with the highest production deficits;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE760.473