A new and greener Common Agricultural Policy for 2015-2020 and its implementation in Wallonia

In order to implement the new Common Agricultural Policy agreed upon in 2013. the Walloon government had to make some choices, left to the Member States or the regions within them, which is the case in Belgium. In July 2014, it was decided to implement the green payment (which is compulsory) proportionally to the basic payments), the payment for young farmers (compulsory) at a high level (1.8% of the total envelope for direct payments), an additional payment for the first 30 hectares (payment which is left to the choice of the Member State/region), coupled payments (as much as 21.3 % of the total amount of direct payments), and the basic payment (compulsory, representing 29.9 % of the total regional envelope for direct payments only in Wallonia)