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EU CAP farm-subsidy beneficiaries

European Union (27 member states) · agriculture · awards

Beneficiaries of Common Agricultural Policy payments, published by each EU member state under CAP transparency rules. Each state runs its own portal with its own schema and language. Critically, states are required to keep the data available for only two years — most remove older records afterwards, so the published record is a rolling window, not an archive.

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Where it lives

PublisherMember state paying agencies; framework set by the European Commission
Publication mandateCAP transparency rules — member states must publish beneficiary details
Licenceunverified — treat as all-rights-reserved not verified
Access methodmixed
Fragmentation27 portals
Update frequencyannual
History⚠ SOURCE DELETES HISTORY: states must make data available for only 2 years; most remove older years afterwards.
Free structured versionpartial — https://farmsubsidy.org/
FarmSubsidy.org has compiled this on volunteer effort for years and states openly that it cannot archive all years.
Who else serves thisnone identified (listed as caution, not endorsement — an existing free or commercial service is often the most useful thing on this page)

Fields

Legal screen

mandated publicationpass
terms permissive or silentunknown
no login paywall captcha personal dataunknown
no specialist legal advice neededunknown
verdictneeds_review

Beneficiaries include individuals, so personal-data treatment must be checked per state before any collection. Catalog listing is metadata only.

Sources

Last checked 2026-08-25.

Academic teams have harmonised 16M payments by hand for research — an expensive workaround that indicates the structured version does not exist.