Amendments to the Common Market Organisation (CMO) Regulation concerning the EU school scheme, sectoral interventions, protein sector, hemp requirements, marketing standards, import duties, crisis supply rules and securities

It affects farmers, producer organisations, schoolchildren, hemp and sugar producers, meat and dairy sectors, importers, and Member States managing food-security preparedness and reserves.

• Creates a protein crop sector and mandatory recognition of producer and interbranch organisations on request.
• Recasts the EU school scheme with stricter nutrition rules and priority for EU, sustainable products.
• Harmonises hemp production, marketing and import rules around certified varieties and a 0.3% THC limit.
• Requires Member States to prepare food-security plans and report stocks during severe crises.

Takes effect

It enters into force 20 days after Official Journal publication, with several provisions applying from later specified or bracketed dates.

Transitional law

Current school-scheme rules continue after 31 December 2027 for measures implemented by then; hemp and producer-organisation transitions are also provided.

• Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 (32013R1308)
  • art. 1(2): replaces point (d) with protein crop sector reference
  • art. 2: replaces Article 2 on general CAP provisions
  • art. 3(3): deletes paragraph 3
  • art. 3(5): adds definition of outermost regions
  • art. 6: replaces point (b) on marketing year
  • art. 7: deletes Article 7
  • art. 13: updates committee-procedure references
  • art. 16a: inserts new Article 16a on public intervention expenditure
  • art. 19(5): adds point (d) on payment reductions for non-compliance
  • art. 20: adds points (v) to (x) on intervention and storage rules
  • art. Part II, Title I, Chapter II: deletes chapter on EU school scheme
  • art. 23a: inserts paragraph 1a on 2027/2028 school scheme aid limit
  • art. Part II, Title I, Chapter IIa: inserts Chapter IIa with Articles 26 to 35 on intervention types
  • art. 75: adds marketing-standard products and amends origin criterion
  • art. 78(1): adds pigmeat, sheepmeat and goatmeat definitions/designations
  • art. 90a(4): replaces penalty rule for wine-sector infringements
  • art. 123a: inserts logo rules for outermost-region quality agricultural products
  • art. 125(1): replaces paragraph on sugar beet and cane buying terms
  • art. 145(3): updates vineyard restructuring and conversion reference
  • art. 147b: inserts Article 147b on production of hemp
  • art. 147c: inserts Article 147c on marketing of hemp
  • art. 154: inserts paragraphs 3a and 3b on transitional producer-organisation recognition
  • art. 158: inserts paragraphs 3a and 3b on transitional interbranch-organisation recognition
  • art. 159: adds protein crop sector to mandatory recognition rules
  • art. 173(1): inserts point (ca) on suspension, reduction and recovery of support
  • art. 174(1): adds rules on checks and unique identification of organisations
  • art. 182(1): replaces second subparagraph on import-duty trigger volume
  • art. 182(2): deletes paragraph 2 on when additional duties are not imposed
  • art. 186(1): adds point (e) on tariff-quota penalties
  • art. 189: replaces Article 189 on imports of hemp
  • art. 214a: replaces Article 214a on national payments in Finland
  • art. 214b: inserts Article 214b on sugar-sector aid in French outermost regions
  • art. 217: deletes Article 217
  • art. Part V, Chapter Ib: inserts Chapter Ib with Articles 222c to 222g on crisis supply availability
  • art. Part V, Chapter III: inserts Chapter III with Article 222h on securities
  • art. 225: deletes points (e) and (f)
  • art. 229: adds paragraph 4 on advisory procedure
  • art. Annex I: amended in accordance with Annex I to this proposal
  • art. Annex II: amended in accordance with Annex I to this proposal
  • art. Annex IV: amended in accordance with Annex I to this proposal
  • art. Annex VII: amended in accordance with Annex I to this proposal
  • art. Annex X: amended in accordance with Annex I to this proposal
  • art. Annex Ia: inserts new Annex Ia from Annex II to this proposal
  • art. Annex V: deletes Annex V