Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Antitrust Guidelines for Sustainability Agreements in Agriculture: Discussion
Ms Henrieta Jany-Roskova:
The Deputy is right. Under normal conditions the Commission proposes regulation. In this case the Commission, in the complex of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, proposed changes to the common agricultural regulation. This was specifically to take out the sectoral interventions from the Common Market organisation regulation and to introduce them on a different legal basis - the strategic plan regulation. However, this Parliament has the opportunity when the Commission submits a proposal to introduce amendments, and through those amendments, Article 210a has been introduced by the European Parliament and accepted by the Council in the trilogue.