Scheitern des GAP-Trilogs im Mai 21: Streit um die Machtarchitektur der Europäischen Union

Das Scheitern der Trilog-Verhandlungen über die GAP-Reform 2021 Ende Mai hat zwar vordergründig inhaltliche Gründe, allerdings waren die inhaltlichen Konfliktpunkte bereits lange bekannt und bei Einigungswillen hätte man Kompromisslinien entwickeln können. Das ist nicht passiert. Im folgenden Beitrag geht es um die Haltung und den Machtanspruch des Ministerrates, die maßgeblich zum Scheitern der Trilog-Verhandlungen beigetragen haben. Zwar ist politischer Streit über solche Fragen legitim und normal, allerdings rührt der Streit Ende Mai an einigen grundsätzlichen Punkte, die auch aus europapolitisch problematisch sind und unter Umständen über die Verhandlungen hinaus die Reformfähigkeit der Europäischen Union gefährden können. Ich werde mich hierbei hauptsächlich mit dem Konflikt zwischen Ministerrat und der EU-Kommission beschäftigen, der während der Verhandlung zu Tage trat. 

EU Vize-Präsident Frans Timmermans im Gespräch mit dem EP-Agrarausschuss während des GAP-Trilogs 28.Mai 2021 (Copyright-Hinweis: © European Union 2021 – Quelle : EP)

Implementation of CAP-reform 2013: Update on the single country overview

The CAP-reform contains some flexible elements, where the EU member states can decide, which options to implement into the national legal framework. These flexible elements were to be reported by the EU-member states to the EU-Commission until August 2014. Last year, I published a preliminary overview on my blog, that was requested a lot (see CAP Implementation an Overview of April 2014). In December 2014 I did a second round of eMail-request to different ministries for agriculture, where I had no information and got a few answers again (Thanks to the ministries of Denmark, Lithuania and Cyprus!). The EU-Commission was also busy and recently published an The CAP towards 2020 Implementation of the new system of direct payments MS notifications, which is especially detailed on voluntary coupled payments and contains also the option taken on greening-regulations.

Today, I am completing the list of country decisions based EU-Commission publication, and also on the information provided by the ministries. You can find in the attached list the single country decisions with respect to a.) voluntary coupled support, b.) Reallocation between Pillars and c.) Degressivity / redistribution. In some cases I added links to interesting government documents, however, that is not a complete link list. Many ministries websites are very detailed and provide complete information even in English. Other websites are rather poor and contain rather confusing informations. Here is the Tabelle CAP-Implementation – Version 2b. (PDF-file). If you have questions or comments on this, let me know, I hope the list of country decisions is useful. I am also working on a qualitative assessment of the flexibility elements, which will (hopefully) be published soon.

Another Assessment has been done by Kaley Hart from the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP): Member State choices on Pillar 1 implementation revealed.