COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Accompanying the document Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the operation of the new delivery model by the Member States and contribution of Member States’ CAP Strategic Plans to achieving environmental and climate-related commitments of the Union
Date: 2026-01-26
Institutions: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Subjects: EAFRD, EAGF, EU Member State, aid to agriculture, climate change policy, common agricultural policy, management planning, performance audit, rural development, sustainable agriculture

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 26.1.2026  SWD(2026) 19 final  COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT           Accompanying the document Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the operation of the new delivery model by the Member States and contribution of Member States’ CAP Strategic Plans to achieving environmental and climate-related commitments of the Union {COM(2026) 37 final}  
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 

1.  Sources mentioned in the report .................................................................. 2 

2.  Part I: Operation of the new delivery model by the Member States ........ 3 

3.  Part II: Contribution of the CAP strategic plans to achieving the EU’s 
environmental and climate-related commitments ...................................... 5 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Term or 
acronym 

Glossary 

Meaning or definition 

AECC 

Agri-environment climate commitments 

ASD 

ANC 

BISS 

CAP 

Area-specific disadvantages 

Areas facing natural or other specific constraints 

Basic Income Support for Sustainability 

Common agricultural policy 

CRISS 

Complementary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability 

CIS 

Coupled Income Support 

CIS-YF 

Coupled Income Support for Young Farmers 

COOP 

Cooperation 

CSP(s) 

CAP strategic plan(s) 

DP(s) 

Direct payment(s) 

ENVCLIM 

Agri-environment-climate commitments other management 
commitments 

GAEC(s) 

Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition(s) 

INSTALL 

Support for setting up young farmers 

INVEST 

Investments on farm 

KNOW 

Knowledge exchange, advice and information 

LU 

SO 

Livestock unit 

Specific objective 

 
 
 
 
1.  SOURCES MENTIONED IN THE REPORT  

1.   European  Commission:  Joint  Research  Centre, The  JRC  farming  practices 
evidence library – This library synthesizes a large amount of scientific evidence to 
assess the effects of farming practices on sustainability outcomes, mainly regarding 
the environment, the climate, and agricultural productivity, Publications Office of 
the European Union, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/9473570 

2.  Mapping and analysis of CAP strategic plans – Assessment of joint efforts for 2023-
Union, 

Publications 

European 

2027, 
2023, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2762/71556  

Office 

the 

of 

3.  EUROPEAN  COMMISSION  –  Directorate-General  for  Agriculture  and  Rural 
Development – Unit A.3 (2025): Study on budget tracking of CAP contribution to 
climate change, biodiversity and clean air action  

4.  EUROPEAN  COMMISSION  –  Directorate-General  for  Agriculture  and  Rural 
Development – Unit A.3 (2025): Rough estimate of the climate change mitigation 
potential of the CAP Strategic Plans (EU-27) over the 2023-2027 period – Report. 
Rough  estimate  of  the  climate  change  mitigation potential  of  the  CAP  Strategic 
Plans (EU-27) over the 2023-2027 period | EU CAP Network  

5.  EUROPEAN  COMMISSION  –  Directorate-General  for  Agriculture  and  Rural 
Development – Unit A.3 (2025): Rough estimate of the soil protection potential of 
the CAP Strategic Plans over the 2023-2027 period | EU CAP Network 

6.  European  Sales  and  Use  of  Antimicrobials  for  veterinary  medicine  (ESUAvet), 
Annual  surveillance  report  for  2023  (EMA/CVMP/ESUAVET/80289/2025). 
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/european-sales-use-
antimicrobials-veterinary-medicine-annual-surveillance-report-2023_en.pdf  

7.  D`Andrimont,  R.,  Skoien,  J.,  Koble,  R.,  Yordanov,  M.  and  Terres,  J.,  EU 
Landscape Feature indicator fact sheet, European Commission, 2023, JRC136069. 
JRC Publications Repository - EU Landscape Feature indicator fact sheet 

8.  EUROPEAN  COMMISSION  –  Directorate-General  for  Agriculture  and  Rural 
Development – (June 2025): The 28 CAP strategic plans underway, Summary of 
implementation in 2023-2024 – facts and figures. CAP strategic plans - overview 

9.  European  Commission.  Catalogue  of  CAP  interventions.  Agri-food  Data  Portal. 
Available 
at: 
https://agridata.ec.europa.eu/extensions/DashboardCapPlan/catalogue_interventio
ns.html.  

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2.  PART I: OPERATION OF THE NEW DELIVERY MODEL BY THE MEMBER STATES 

Table 1: Number of planned interventions and sub interventions in the 28 CAP strategic 
plans 

Type of intervention 

Number of interventions 

Number of sub-interventions 
(unit amount) 

Direct payment 

Rural development 

Apiculture 

Wine 

Total 

490 

1 181 

159 

83 

1 913 

1 106 

9 239 

299 

110 

10 754 

Note:  Sectoral  support  for  other  sectors  is  planned  by  operational  programmes  and  not  by  intervention. 
Source: Catalogue of CAP interventions (retrieved October 2025). 

Table  2:  Number  of  CAP  plans  by  level  of  difference  between  realised  and  planned 
outputs by type of intervention in financial year 2024 

Number of 
CSPs with 

Output 

BISS- O.4 (ha) 

CRISS - O.7 
(ha) 

CIS-YF - O.6 
(ha) 

CIS - O.10 
(ha) 

CIS - O.11 
(heads) 

ECO-
SCHEME - 
O.8 (ha) 

ECO-
SCHEME - 
O.8 (LU) 

ANC- O.12 
(ha) 

ENVCLIM- 
O.14 (ha, 
excluding 
forestry) 

Realisation< Planning 

Less 
than -
50% 

From -
50% 
to -
15% 

From 
-15 
to -
5% 

Realisation 
close to 
Planning 

More or less 
5% 

Realisation> Planning 

Comment 

From 
15% to 
50% 

More 
than 
50% 

From 
5% 
to 
15% 

26 

20 

4 

6 

7 

2 

0 

9 

1 

1 

1 

2 

1 

4 

2 

1 

5 

2 

0 

1 

4 

1 

1 

0 

2 CSPs +/-
6% -28 
CSP 

0 

26/28 CSP 

2 

23/28 CSP 

1 

23/28 CSP 

0 

26/28 CSP 

10 

3 

28 CSP 

2 

1 

6 

1 

8/28 CSP 

2 

18/28 CSP 

1 

25/28 CSP 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

1 

2 

0 

1 

0 

0 

8 

6 

4 

8 

0 

1 

8 

1 

4 

3 

8 

10 

2 

2 

0 

6 

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Number of 
CSPs with 

ORGANIC 
FARMING- 
O.17 (ha) 

ANIMAL 
WELFARE - 
O. 18 (LU) 

Realisation< Planning 

Realisation 
close to 
Planning 

Realisation> Planning 

Comment 

4 

0 

6 

5 

6 

3 

3 

1 

0 

2 

1 

3 

2 

22/28 CSP 

4 

18/28 CSP 

Source: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, annual performance reports 2024. 

Figure  1: Share of unit amounts  by level  of difference between planned and realised 
unit amounts by type of intervention in financial year 2024 

Source: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, annual performance reports 2024. 

Table 3: Budget execution for direct payment by types of intervention 

Calendar year 
2023/Financial year 
2024 (EUR million) 

Basic income support 
for sustainability 

Complementary 
redistributive income 
support for 
sustainability 

Complementary income 
support for young 
farmers 

Schemes for the climate 
and the environment 

Coupled income support 

Indicative financial 
allocation 

Execution 

Execution rate 

19 303.68 

18 966.82 

98.25% 

3 956.14 

4 012.38 

101.42% 

684.35 

700.85 

102.41% 

8 785.46 

4 586.05 

8 586.83 

4 412.92 

97.74% 

96.22% 

Source: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development. 

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3.  PART II: CONTRIBUTION OF THE CAP STRATEGIC PLANS TO ACHIEVING THE EU’S 

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE-RELATED COMMITMENTS  

Table  4:  CAP  2023-2027  budget  contribution  to  climate  change  (adaptation  and 
mitigation), biodiversity and clean air 

CAP 
interventions 

DPs- positive 
farming systems 

DPs- GAECs 

Total DPs 

ANC 

Eco-schemes 

AECC 

Green 
investments 

Other 
interventions 

Total green 
interventions 

TOTAL CAP 
interventions 

Total EU 
planned 
expenditure 
(billion EUR) 

Climate 
change 

Climate 
change 
mitigation 

Climate 
change 
adaptation 

19% 

3% 

21% 

29% 

75% 

69% 

36% 

19% 

3% 

21% 

29% 

69% 

65% 

25% 

19% 

3% 

21% 

29% 

72% 

47% 

26% 

143 

127 

143 

10 

44 

18 

19 

21 

Biodiversity  Clean air 

25% 

19% 

3% 

27% 

39% 

86% 

79% 

28% 

1% 

20% 

29% 

34% 

30% 

2% 

1% 

6% 

2% 

2% 

2% 

103 

54% 

48% 

46% 

58% 

22% 

256 

33% 

31% 

30% 

39% 

20% 

Note: DPs=Direct payments excluding eco-schemes.  

Source: Study on budget tracking of CAP contribution to climate change, biodiversity and clean air action. 

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Figure  2: Illustration  of  the  policy  mix  to  achieve  environmental  and  climate-related 
objectives in 8 Member States 

Note: SO4= Contributing to climate change mitigation, SO5= Efficient natural resource management, SO6= 
Halting and reversing biodiversity loss. 
Source: Analytical work: The CAP’s Green Architecture – designing green strategies|EU CAP Network. 

Figure  3: Share  of  CAP  tools  and  categories  of  farming  practices  in  the  estimated 
mitigation potential of the CAP (according to JRC farming practices classification) (%) 

Source: Rough estimate of the climate change mitigation potential of the CAP strategic plans (EU-27) over 
the 2023-2027 period|EU CAP Network. 

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Figure 4: Area covered by farming practices beneficial for soil health supported by the 
CAP on more than 1.5 million ha per year in 13 CPSs 

R14-Crop diversification

O11-Maintenance of organic farming practices

R121-Cultivation of nitrogen fixing/protein crops

S22-Crop residues left on soil

R11-Crop rotation

S26-Crop residue incorporated into the soil

G25-Ban of ploughing of grassland

S12-No tillage

S11-Low tillage

R17-Catch crops

O12-Conversion to organic farming practices

S25-Green cover on permanent crops

0

2.000.000 4.000.000 6.000.000 8.000.000

Eco-scheme

ENVCLIM

CIS

INVEST

Hectares/year

Source:  Rough  estimate  of  the  soil  protection  potential  of  the  CAP  Strategic  Plans  over  the  2023-2027 
period|EU CAP Network. 

Figure 5: Share of EU’s agricultural area covered by actions to  improve biodiversity, 
climate and natural resources and planned milestones in financial year 2024 (%)  

Note: for R.33 – share of Natura 2000 areas under relevant commitments, for R.13 – share of livestock units 

Source:  The  28  CAP  strategic  plans  underway  –  Summary  of  implementation  in  2023-2024  –  facts  and 
figures. 

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Figure  6: EU’s  progress  towards  50%  reduction  of  overall  antimicrobial  sales  for 
farmed animals and in aquaculture by 2030 EU 

Source:https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/european-sales-use-antimicrobials-veterinary-
medicine-annual-surveillance-report-2023_en.pdf. 

Figure 7: Nitrogen fertiliser consumption in EU agriculture (million tonnes, 2013-2023) 

Note: Estimates for the period 2020-2023 

Source:  Agri-environmental  indicator  -  mineral  fertiliser  consumption  -  Statistics  Explained  -  Eurostat 
(online data code aei_fm_usefert). 

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