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This European Parliamentary Research Service paper aims to inform Members on issues related to a forthcoming Commission initiative. It highlights the main choices that may shape the initiative and which Members may wish to explore ahead of formal European Commission adoption. Based on documentary and other sources, it reflects the information available at the time of writing. For further information on this topic, Members and staff of the European Parliament may contact the author. KEY ISSUES AT ...

Two and a half years since the new rules on the common agricultural policy (CAP) started to apply, the Commission is amending them for the second time. The proposal comes just weeks before the Commission aims to make a separate proposal for the CAP rules that would be in force after 2027. While the first package of amendments, adopted in July 2024 after widespread farmer protests, lowered some of the environmental conditionality requirements and did away with the conditionality controls and penalties ...

The original full study analyses the implications of a shift towards performance-based instruments for budgetary control. In the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and (to a lesser extent) Cohesion Policy, the use of Financing not Linked to Costs (FNLC) was adopted as a means of simplifying the financing of programmes funded by the EU. Instead of disbursements being based on costs, beneficiaries have to demonstrate that they have made progress towards achieving plans. For the RRF, qualitative ...

In der vollständigen Originalstudie werden die Auswirkungen des Wechsels zu leistungsbasierten Instrumenten auf die Haushaltskontrolle analysiert. Bei der Aufbau- und Resilienzfazilität (ARF) und – in geringerem Maße – bei der Kohäsionspolitik wurde die Nutzung der nicht an Kosten geknüpften Finanzierung als Möglichkeit herangezogen, um die Finanzierung von Programmen zu vereinfachen, die von der EU finanziert werden. Dabei beruhen die Vorschusszahlungen nicht auf den Kosten, sondern die Begünstigten ...

Lo studio originale completo analizza le implicazioni di un passaggio a strumenti basati sulle prestazioni per il controllo di bilancio. Nel dispositivo per la ripresa e la resilienza (RRF) e, in misura minore, nella politica di coesione, il ricorso al finanziamento non collegato ai costi è stato adottato per semplificare il finanziamento dei programmi dell'UE. Anziché ricevere le erogazioni sulla base dei costi, i beneficiari devono dimostrare di aver compiuto progressi verso la realizzazione dei ...