Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1159 of 31 March 2025 correcting Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/126 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council with additional requirements for certain types of intervention specified by Member States in their CAP Strategic Plans for the period 2023 to 2027 under that Regulation as well as rules on the ratio for the good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC) standard 1

‘4 Member States may provide, in their CAP Strategic Plans, support for investments in irrigation provided that a water meter system enabling measurement of water use at the level of the holding or the relevant production unit is in place or is put in place as part of the investment.’

‘5 Support for investments in the improvement of an existing irrigation installation or an element of irrigation infrastructure may be provided under the following conditions: (a) the investments are assessed by the beneficiary ex ante as offering potential water savings reflecting the technical parameters of the existing installations or infrastructures; (b) where the investments affect bodies of groundwater or surface water whose status have been identified as less than good in the relevant river basin management plan as referred to in Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council for reasons related to water quantity, an effective reduction in water use is achieved contributing to the achievement of good status of these water bodies, as laid down in Article 4(1) of that Directive. Member States shall set percentages for potential water savings and effective reduction in water use as an eligibility condition in their CAP Strategic Plans in accordance with Article 111, first paragraph, point (d), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. Such water savings targets shall be determined by taking into account the needs set out in the river basin management plans referred to in Directive 2000/60/EC. The conditions set out in this paragraph shall not apply to investments in an existing irrigation installation or in an element of irrigation infrastructure which affects only energy efficiency, to investments in the creation of a reservoir or to investments in the use of reclaimed water which do not affect a body of groundwater or surface water.

‘6 Support for investments in irrigation resulting in a net increase of the irrigated area affecting a given body of groundwater or surface water may be provided under the following conditions: (a) the status of the water body has not been identified as less than good in the relevant river basin management plan for reasons related to water quantity; and (b) an environmental impact analysis shows that there will be no significant negative environmental impact from the investment; that environmental impact analysis shall be either carried out by or approved by the competent authority.’

‘10 Where investments are replaced, the residual value of the replaced investments shall be: (a) added to the operational fund of the producer organisation; or, (b) subtracted from the cost of the replacement. Notwithstanding the first subparagraph, Member States shall not provide support for the mere replacement of investments by identical assets.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.