Common Agricultural Policy — income support
Income support is one of the two main strands of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. The European Commission publishes it as a standing area of the CAP, delivered to farmers through Member State paying agencies rather than by the Commission directly.
- Jurisdiction
- European Union
- Programme type
- Income support
- Status
- Recurring
- Last verified
- 2026-08-20
Official programme pagehttps://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/income-support_en
Who it is for
- Farmer
- Agricultural holding
Income support under the CAP is delivered by Member States under their national CAP Strategic Plans; the conditions that apply to a given farmer are set nationally.
Eligibility depends on the official programme rules and individual circumstances. Verify current requirements and application periods with the administering authority.
Application period
Not established from the official page read during verification. Check the official programme page or the administering authority for current application periods.
Administered by
Evidence & verification
Recorded as recurring in European Union.
- Official source
- Common Agricultural Policy — income supportCommon Agricultural Policy — income support
- Source page
- https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/income-support_enThe programme page states that the scheme runs; it publishes no addressable status field.
- What AgricultureID records
- recurringa value from SupportProgrammeStatus, not a quotation
- Standing
- Verified against the sourcelast verified 2026-08-20
- Payments are made by designated paying agencies in each Member State, not by the European Commission; the applicable conditions and rates are set in the Member State’s CAP Strategic Plan and are not stated here.
- Application periods are set nationally and were not verified for any Member State during this pass.
Evidence shows what an official source published and what AgricultureID made of it. The two are always shown separately: quoted text is the source’s own, and a normalised value is AgricultureID’s vocabulary, not a quotation.
Sources and verification
Official programme page loaded in a real browser on 2026-08-20; it resolved with HTTP 200 identifying the programme as Common Agricultural Policy — income support.
Verified 2026-08-20 · Common Agricultural Policy — income support
Important limitations
- Payments are made by designated paying agencies in each Member State, not by the European Commission; the applicable conditions and rates are set in the Member State’s CAP Strategic Plan and are not stated here.
- Application periods are set nationally and were not verified for any Member State during this pass.