Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1465 providing for emergency financial support for the agricultural sectors affected by specific problems impacting on the economic viability of agricultural producers.

This Regulation addresses specific problems impacting on the economic viability of agricultural producers, including Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on food supply chains; the increase in the prices of energy and agricultural inputs; the increase in the prices of other inputs for farmers and food chain operators such as for example plant protection products and animal health treatments, machinery and packaging; the fall in the prices for most agricultural products such as cereals, oilseeds, dairy products or wine; and increasing climate-change related risks to agriculture such as drought and floods.
This Regulation provides for Union aid to the Member States referred to in Article 1(1) for measures aiming to compensate farmers in the most affected sectors such as the animal, fruit and vegetables, wine, cereals and oilseeds sectors, for the economic losses impacting on the viability of agricultural producers. The measures shall be taken on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria that take account of the economic losses borne by the affected farmers and ensure that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion. Measures under this Regulation may be cumulated with other support financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. The beneficiary Member States should ensure that farmers are the ultimate beneficiaries of the aid and avoid any distortions of the market or of competition.