Media advisory - Agriculture and Fisheries Council of 30 March 2026 15:33 Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities. Council of the EU

Indicative programme

All times are approximate and subject to change

Place:
Europa building, Brussels

Chair:
Maria Panayiotou, Cyprus Minister for Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment

From 08.45
Arrivals and doorsteps (live streaming)

08.45
Doorstep by Minister Maria Panayiotou (live streaming)

10.00
Beginning of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting
Adoption of the agenda
Approval of 'A' items:

• Non-legislative list
• Legislative list (+/- 10.10 public session)

+/- 10.15
Energy transition in the EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors (public session)
Any other business:
- Urgent actions to address the crisis in the EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors (public session)

+/- 11.45
Any other business:
- Implementation dialogue on small-scale and costal fisheries (public session)
- Mackerel
- CATCH (+/- 12.15 public session)

+/- 12.30
Ministerial lunch

+/- 14.00
Vision for agriculture & food (public session)
Any other business:
- Joint declaration of the Ministers of Agriculture of the Visegrad Group and Bulgaria and Romania on the post 2027 MFF and the CAP (public session)
- Transitional provisions for sectoral interventions in the wine sector and in the fruit and vegetable sector (public session)
- Fertilisers/CBAM (public session)
- Promotion of the use of digestate in Europe (+/- 15.30 public session)

+/- 15.45
Trade

+/- 17.15
Any other business:
- Necessary amendments to the automatic safeguard clause in the GSP Regulation (public session)
- European milk & dairy market situation (+/- 17.30 public session)
- The financial ceilings for direct payments for claim year 2027 (+/- 17.45 public session)

At the end of the meeting (+/- 18.15) press conference in live streaming.

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