Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1017 of 26 May 2025 on temporary emergency measures for Spain derogating from certain provisions of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council and from Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/126, to resolve specific problems in the fruit and vegetables and wine sectors caused by severe adverse meteorological events

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1017
• Articles: 4

Article 1 Temporary derogations from Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 with regard to the fruit and vegetables sector

1.   By way of derogation from Article 50(7), first subparagraph, point (d), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the limit of one third of the total expenditure for interventions within the types of intervention referred to in Article 47(2), points (f), (g) and (h), of that Regulation, shall not apply to operational programmes paid or implemented in the year 2025 in respect of areas identified by Spain as affected by the severe adverse meteorological events of October and November 2024.

2.   The limit laid down in Article 52(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 shall be 70 % of the actual expenditure incurred in the years 2024 and 2025 for operational programmes implemented by producer organisations or associations of producer organisations identified by Spain as affected by the severe adverse meteorological events of October and November 2024.

Article 2 Temporary derogations from Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 with regard to the wine sector

1.   By way of derogation from Article 58(1), first subparagraph, point (a)(iv), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the normal renewal of vineyards consisting of replanting with the same grape variety according to the same system of vine cultivation, without improvements to vineyard management techniques shall be allowed in respect of vineyards identified by Spain as affected by the severe adverse meteorological events of October and November 2024.

2.   By way of derogation from Article 59(1), first and second subparagraphs, of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the Union financial assistance for restructuring of vineyards referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not exceed 80 % of the actual costs of the restructuring of vineyards identified by Spain as affected by the severe adverse meteorological events of October and November 2024.

3.   By way of derogation from Article 59(1), third subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the compensation to producers affected by the severe adverse meteorological events of October and November 2024 for loss of revenue due to the implementation of the intervention referred to in paragraph 1 may only take the form of a financial compensation for a maximum period which shall not exceed three years.

Article 3 Temporary derogation from Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/126

By way of derogation from Article 11(10), second subparagraph, of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/126, Spain may allow the mere replacement of investments by identical assets by producer organisations, associations of producer organisations or wine producers identified by Spain as affected by the severe adverse meteorological events of October and November 2024 provided that the loss of the initial assets is due to the occurrence of those events.

Article 4 Entry into force and application

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

It shall apply until 27 May 2026.