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• The deadline to apply for CAP aid is April 30th.
• The CAP single application will have a budget of 4.897 billion euros for this campaign
• Approximately 585,000 farmers and ranchers are eligible to submit the single application.

The deadline to apply for Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) aid for 2026 is April 30. Some 585,000 farmers and livestock breeders can submit the single application—for direct aid, as well as aid based on area and animals under the rural development programs of the autonomous communities—which this year will have a budget of €4.897 billion, €8 million more than in the previous year.

Once the deadline has passed, applicants can submit an amendment to their application—between May 1 and 31—to indicate any changes to their planting plan. Furthermore, if any errors are detected, farmers and livestock breeders can correct their applications without penalty until August 31.

The single application must be submitted in the autonomous community where the farm or the majority of its land is located. If there is no land available, it must be submitted in the autonomous community where the largest number of animals are located.

APPLICATIONS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, NATIONAL RESERVE AND TRANSFER OF RIGHTS

The application period for payments under the regional rural development programs has also opened: area-based and livestock aid. In some regions, the single application also includes applications for interventions to support young and new farmers, as well as the start-up of new rural businesses.

You can also submit notifications of the transfer of Basic Income Support entitlements and applications for entitlements to the National Basic Income Support Reserve. The Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEGA) has added a new link to its website for this purpose .

All applicants must submit a "graphic declaration" of the farm's agricultural parcels, in accordance with the Geographic Information System for Agricultural Parcel Identification (SIGPAC). To facilitate the completion of the single application, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food provides applicants with the necessary information through this link .

The Ministry also maintains the Aid Management System (SGA ) available to the autonomous communities, a software tool that allows for the completion and processing of single applications. Currently, Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, the Basque Country, La Rioja, and the Valencian Community are using this system. The remaining communities have developed their own software systems for this purpose.

TYPES OF AID

The aid that can be requested in 2026 is as follows:

1. Decoupled aid schemes

• Basic income support for sustainability (ABRS).

• Complementary redistributive aid to income for sustainability.

• Supplementary income support for young farmers.

2. Climate and environmental regimes: ecoregimes

• Carbon agriculture and agroecology: extensive grazing, mowing and biodiversity on wet pasture surfaces.

• Carbon agriculture and agroecology: extensive grazing, mowing and biodiversity in Mediterranean pasturelands.

• Carbon agriculture and agroecology: rotations and direct seeding in dryland farming.

• Carbon agriculture and agroecology: rotations and direct seeding in humid dryland farming.

• Carbon agriculture and agroecology: rotations and direct seeding in irrigated farmland.

• Carbon agriculture: plant covers and inert covers in woody crops on flat land.

• Carbon agriculture: plant covers and inert covers in woody crops on medium slope land.

• Carbon agriculture: plant covers and inert covers in woody crops on steep slopes and terraces.

• Agroecology: spaces of biodiversity in farmland and permanent crops.

3. Specific aid schemes based on area

• Specific payment for cotton cultivation.

4. Income support associated with

• Support the sustainable production of plant-based protein. Protein plan.

• It helps with sustainable rice production.

• It helps with the sustainable production of sugar beets.

• It helps the sustainable production of tomatoes for processing.

• It helps nut producers in areas at risk of desertification.

• It helps the traditional production of raisins.

• It helps olive groves with specific difficulties and high environmental value.

• Aid for extensive beef cattle farmers.

• Aid for fattening calves on the birth farm.

• Aid for the sustainable fattening of calves.

• Aid for the sustainable production of cow's milk.

• Aid for extensive and semi-extensive sheep and goat farmers for meat.

• Aid for the sustainable production of sheep and goat milk.

• Aid for extensive and semi-extensive sheep and goat farmers without pastures at their disposal and who graze on stubble fields, fallow land and horticultural waste.

Information leaflet for applicants for CAP 2026 aid | FEGA Web Portal