Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1962 of 18 July 2024 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2289 as regards the presentation of the content of the CAP Strategic Plans regarding GAEC standards 7 and 8 and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475 as regards the provision of certain data for monitoring and evaluation by Member States
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1962of 18 July 2024amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2289 as regards the presentation of the content of the CAP Strategic Plans regarding GAEC standards 7 and 8 and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475 as regards the provision of certain data for monitoring and evaluation by Member StatesTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021 establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013OJ L 435, 6.12.2021, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/2115/oj., and in particular Article 117 and Article 143(4) thereof,Whereas:(1)Regulation (EU) 2024/1468 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilRegulation (EU) 2024/1468 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 amending Regulations (EU) 2021/2115 and (EU) No 2021/2116 as regards good agricultural and environmental condition standards, schemes for climate, environment and animal welfare, amendment of the CAP Strategic Plans, review of the CAP Strategic Plans and exemptions from controls and penalties (OJ L 2024/1468, 24.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1468/oj). amended Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, as regards among others the possibility for Member States to grant temporary derogations from Good agricultural and environmental conditions ("GAEC") standards and as regards the requirements of certain GAEC standards laid down in Annex III to that Regulation.(2)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2289Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2289 of 21 December 2021 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the presentation of the content of the CAP Strategic Plans and on the electronic system for the secure exchange of information (OJ L 458, 22.12.2021, p. 463, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2021/2289/oj). lays down detailed rules on the presentation of the content of the CAP Strategic Plans and on the electronic system for the secure exchange of information. Annex I to that Implementing Regulation should be amended to enable Member States to introduce the option in their CAP Strategic Plans allowing farmers to fulfil GAEC standard 7 by crop diversification.(3)Given that Regulation (EU) 2024/1468 deleted the first requirement of GAEC standard 8 from Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the provisions on the elements related to this requirement that are to be set in the CAP Strategic Plans should also be deleted from Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2289.(4)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475 of 6 September 2022 laying down detailed rules for implementation of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the evaluation of the CAP Strategic Plans and the provision of information for monitoring and evaluation (OJ L 232, 7.9.2022, p. 8, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1475/oj). lays down detailed rules as regards the evaluation of the CAP Strategic Plans and the provision of information for monitoring and evaluation. To ensure the completeness of the information necessary for monitoring and evaluation of CAP Strategic Plans, Member States should report to the Commission for each year data on the implementation of temporary derogations from GAEC standards referred to in Article 13(2a) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/1468. These reports should include information on the territorial and material scope of these temporary derogations, on the duration and reasons for the temporary derogations, as well as on farmers and other beneficiaries concerned by the temporary derogations. Provisions necessary to ensure the transfer of these data to the Commission, such as the frequency, the timing and the responsible body for the data transfer should be laid down.(5)Regulation (EU) 2024/1468 introduced an obligation for Member States to establish and provide support for eco-schemes covering, on arable land, practices for the maintenance of non-productive areas, such as land lying fallow, and for the establishment of new landscape features, referred to in Article 31(1a) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. To enable the Commission to monitor and evaluate these eco-schemes, given the importance of the contribution of such practices to the specific objective related to biodiversity set out in Article 6(1), point (f), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, it should be provided that Member States are to report data on the number of eligible hectares paid for these practices. To facilitate an evaluation of the different practices covered by these eco-schemes, the data should be provided separately for eco-schemes covering non-productive areas and for eco-schemes establishing new landscape features, on arable land. For the Member States taking a decision referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1468 to amend GAEC standard 8 for claim year 2024, the obligation to report data for the relevant eco-schemes should apply as from claim year 2024.(6)As Regulation (EU) 2024/1468 deleted the first requirement of GAEC standard 8 from Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the obligation for Member States to report data on this requirement should be deleted from Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475.(7)Transitional provisions should be laid down to enable Member States taking decisions referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1468 to apply the requirements on the presentation of the content of the CAP Strategic Plan in respect to the amendments of CAP Strategic Plans regarding GAEC standards 7 and 8 for claim year 2024 and to ensure that Member States continue reporting data on the implementation of GAEC standard 8 referred to in section 4, point (q), of Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1475 for claim years 2023 and 2024.(8)Implementing Regulations (EU) 2021/2289 and (EU) No 2022/1475 should therefore be amended accordingly.(9)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Common Agriculture Policy Committee,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: