Basque Minister Mrs Amaia Barredo defends in Madrid the need for " a Community Agricultural Policy with its own budget and regional plans based on subsidiarity"

• At the Ministerial Advisory Council chaired by Minister Mr Luis Planas
• "We radically oppose the proposal to articulate the NRPs at the state level, leaving their final structure in the hands of the Spanish government in power in 2027"
• "From the Basque Government, we will defend both the separation of the CAP from other policies at the budgetary level and its implementation based on regional plans"
• "Brussels cannot frivolously ignore this reality," the Minister insisted
• "Fisheries policy also needs its own fund or allocation"

Madrid 2025 09 15

The Minister of Food, Rural Development, Agriculture and Fisheries of the Basque Government, Mrs Amaia Barredo, defended this afternoon at the Ministerial Advisory Council held in Madrid, chaired by Minister Mr Luis Planas, "the position of The Basque Country faces the future CAP, post-2027, with a CAP with its own budget and regional or autonomous plans based on subsidiarity.”

Mrs Amaia Barredo, regarding the Danish presidency's proposal to initiate a consultation schedule on the provisions of the proposed implementation of the new CAP, expressed the “Basque Government's opposition to this debate without first addressing the negotiation of the proposed regulations for the 2028-2034 multiannual financial framework.” “Fisheries policy also requires its own fund or allocation,” Sailburu Barredo demanded.

At the advisory council meeting, Amaia Barredo stated that the "regulatory proposal that includes the CAP within the European Fund for Economic, Territorial, Social, Rural and Maritime Security and Sustainable Prosperity should not share a budget with other policies such as regional, cohesion, or fisheries. It should not be diluted, as it has a central entity."

"We demand that the CAP have its own budget, larger than the one initially allocated, and if the decision is made to eliminate EAGF and EAFRD, a specific fund, in any case. We are radically opposed to the proposal to structure agricultural policy alongside the other policies mentioned, within a single national plan (the so-called NRP or country plan)," Amaia Barredo emphasized.