Member States should be given additional flexibility to amend their CAP Strategic Plans while ensuring their stability and manageability, as well as the administrative efficiency of the amendment process. Experience has shown that addressing the specific requirements of both the EAGF and the EAFRD in one request for amendment can be challenging. At the same time, the number of amendments per calendar year should be limited to ensure that farmers and other beneficiaries have sufficient time to take those amendments into account, as well as to limit the administrative burden on the Member States and to enable the Commission to assess the compatibility of those amendments with the Union legal framework laid down in Regulations (EU) 2021/2115 and (EU) 2021/2116 within the time limits set out in that legal framework. For those reasons, the maximum number of requests for amendments of CAP Strategic Plans should be increased to two requests for amendment per calendar year, in addition to the three further requests for amendment of the CAP Strategic Plan that may be submitted in accordance with Article 119(7) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115.
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