Brussels, 19.1.2024

COM(2024) 32 final

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL

on EAGF expenditure











Early Warning System No 11-12/2023


1.Table provisional consumption on 31/12/2023

This report presents the provisional implementation of the 2023 budget for the EAGF on 31/12/2023, with details given in the below table.

A comparison is made of the implementation level with the corresponding appropriations included in the 2023 budget.

2.Comments on the 2023 agricultural reserve  

Budget 2023 included an amount of EUR 450 million for the agricultural reserve. Five measures, totaling EUR 530.5 million, have been adopted 1 . 

The first three ones are exclusively financed under the 2023 agricultural reserve, thus under Budget 2023. Whereas the last two measures are financed both under the 2023 and 2024 budget. A total of EUR 134.5 million of payments have been declared under Budget 2023. The remaining appropriations of EUR 315.5 million will be carried over to Budget 2024.

3.Comments on the provisional implementation of the 2023 EAGF budget

The provisional expenditure of the 2023 EAGF budget, including estimated, fully implemented actions under direct management by the Commission until 31 December 2023, results in an under-execution of EUR 20.5 million compared to the budget's voted appropriations. Considering the available assigned revenue of EUR 626.2 million, the total EAGF under-implementation amounts to EUR 646.7 million.

This overall EAGF surplus includes EUR 315.5 million of voted appropriations (C1) from the agricultural reserve, which in accordance with Article 16(2), third subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 will be carried over to the 2024 agricultural reserve.

The remaining surplus of EUR 331.2 million translates into additional revenue assigned to the EAGF (C4) to be carried over from 2023 to 2024, reducing the amount of appropriations needed in the Budget 2024.

The real implementation at year-end for the directly managed expenditure as well as a number of end-of-year adjustments and transfers of appropriations will influence slightly the final balance of assigned revenue to be carried over to the 2024 budget. In the context of the conciliation procedure on the budget for 2024, this balance was estimated at EUR 339.8 million.

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 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2406 of 8 December 2022 on exceptional market support measures for the eggs and poultry meat sectors in Poland (OJ L 317, 9.12.2022, p. 56, ELI:  http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/2406/oj) ,

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/739 of 4 April 2023 providing for an emergency support measure for the cereal and oilseed sectors in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania (OJ L 96, 5.4.2023, p. 80, ELI:  http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/739/oj ),

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/834 of 18 April 2023 on exceptional market support measures for the eggs and poultry meat sectors in Italy (OJ L 105, 20.4.2023, p. 2, ELI:  http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/834/oj ),

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1343 of 30 June 2023 providing for an emergency support measure for the cereal and oilseed sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia (OJ L 168, 03.7.2023, p. 22, ELI:  http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1343/oj ),

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1465 of 14 July 2023 providing for emergency financial support for the agricultural sectors affected by specific problems impacting on the economic viability of agricultural producers (OJ L 180, 17.7.2023, p. 21, ELI:  http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1465/oj ).